Language Quotes - Page 71
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.55, Cambridge University Press
Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.347
"Far from the Madding Crowd". Book by Thomas Hardy, 1874.
A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.
Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36
"On John Dryden" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.
"The Jargon of Authenticity". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1964.
On his early computers, from a talk "When I Were A Lad, We Used To Dream of 64K" at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, Scotland, August 2005.
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.209, Random House
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons