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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

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

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

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.36

My programming language was solder.

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

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons