Language Quote by Joseph Devlin Download Open image ““subjects. Directions. CHAPTER XIII CHOICE OF WORDS”” — Joseph Devlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“it seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“De Man's challenge to modernity was to put forward a new mode of subject constitution, not one that relied upon the foundational operation of… — Wlad Godzich Copy Share Image
“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.” — Tom Kane Copy Share Image
“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that… — Joseph Devlin 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, a little… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is- the poet… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number.… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“plural is generally formed from the singular by the addition of s or es.” — Joseph Devlin 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
“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way. The ploughman plods his weary way homeward. Plods homeward the ploughman his weary way. His weary way… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
“In the works of Shakespeare , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words,… — Joseph Devlin 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
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
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
