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Language
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
Best Quotes about Language
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Baudrillard, Jean
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
Saussure, Ferdinand De
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Hugo, Victor
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Orwell, George
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Ricks, Christopher
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Macaulay, Thomas B.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Chomsky, Noam
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Barthes, Roland
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Man, Paul De
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Tocqueville, Alexis De
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Whitman, Walt
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Calvino, Italo
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Barthes, Roland
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Huessy, Rosenstock
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
Berger, John
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Roth, Philip
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Bogan, Louise
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
Appleton, Sir Edward
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Guin, Ursula K. Le
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Walcott, Derek
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Winter, W.
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Benchley, Robert
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
Lodge, David
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Tolkien, J. R.
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