Language Quotes - Page 69

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.