Quotes About Language

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Hear the meaning within the word.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Dreams are the language of God.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.