American language Quote by Cyril Connolly Download Open image “The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.” — Cyril Connolly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American language Based Survival Communication Flux Language Language State Society States Survival Survival Unfittest
Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.” — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
America exports its culture world-wide but with us they don't have to surmount a language barrier, and therefore they swamp us. While other European… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language. — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church Copy Share Image
At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as there would… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language. — Ty Pennington Copy Share Image
