Language Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Looks Men Standard english Standards
“Standard English is a convenient abstraction, like the average man.” — George Leslie Brook Copy Share Image
If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Standard English as it is presented by grammarians and pedants is a dialect that is based on a mostly fictional, static, and Platonic ideal… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou… — J.R. Ward 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
“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a little care,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and… — William Feather Copy Share Image
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau 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
