Language Quote by Timothy Snyder

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

— Timothy Snyder

Think up your own way of speaking. When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“Millions of those who are watching...can read hardly at all. Millions more can read the words but cannot understand them. Of those who can…

— Walter Lippmann

“There is an aversion to long chunks of sentences...The dire problem is that long chunks of sentences are still the best way humans have…

— Dick Meyer

“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak…

— Graham Greene

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The…

— Roy Peter Clark

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface,…

— Italo Calvino

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

— Clay Shirky

“Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.”

— A.G. Porter

“Media are epistemologies. Every medium implies a particular way of thinking about things, influences to great extent what things we will think about, and…

— Peter K. Fallon

“Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those…

— Wil Zeus

“We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitrarily selective work the Oxford English…

— Douglas Adams