Language Quotes - Page 74

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Irish is a leprechaun language.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to translate the music. And so, that is what you are hoping for: a translator who gets what you are doing but who also gets all the ways in which it won't work in the new language.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.