Language Quotes - Page 75

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at the self. That now feels a little quaint, that kind of language. But it does include the most fierce and self-displaying form of one's individual self. And in this way, it can be dangerous. When you look at Donald Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area. And if that's what Fromm means by malignant narcissism, then it definitely applies.

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice.

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.