Language Quote by Dick Cavett Download Open image “Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.” — Dick Cavett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Leads Legislation Sloppy Thought
Occasionally, well-intentioned legislation can fall apart because of a few misplaced words or technical language that was left out. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions;… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language. — Betty Boothroyd 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
“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I guess the best advice I ever got or anyone could get for doing a talk show, though it has not been easy very… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker,… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
