Books Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

— George Orwell

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak”

— George Orwell

O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from…

— Herman Melville

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

“The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very…

— Amos Oz

Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person…

— Carol Windley

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

— Amos Oz

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put…

— Debbie Reynolds