Language Quote by M.B. Parkes

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

— David Foster Wallace

The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

— Jurgen Habermas

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

— Paulo Freire

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

— William Strunk, Jr

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil lamp. And…

— Anne Rice

Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality:…

— Frank Smith

“while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and…

— Harold Bell Wright

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

— Hippocrates