Quotes About Language

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

You swear you'll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say "fuck" and "shit" a lot, and then one day, without warning, their words emerge from your mouth like long-dormant sleeper agents suddenly activated.

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message.

Het juiste woord, de precisie van de formulering, (...) verschaft de schrijver die 'heimelijke zorgeloosheid', het geluksgevoel. Citaat uit 'De vreugde van het formuleren

Don't use language instrumentally

90 percent of communication occurs using just 500 words), among many other things. Sometimes it is known as the Matthew Principle (Matthew 25:29), derived from what might be the harshest statement ever attributed to Christ: "to those who have everything, more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken.

Search for the correct words. Organize those words into the correct sentences, and those sentences into the correct paragraphs. The past can be redeemed, when reduced by precise language to its essence.

The moral of Genesis I is that Being brought into existence through true speech is Good.

The fact is important enough to bear repeating: people organize their brains with conversation.

Considerations of Aesthetics and Fascination: You should strive for brevity, which is concise and efficient expression, as well as beauty, which is the melodic or poetic aspect of your language (at all the requisite levels of analysis). Finally, you should not be bored, or boring. If you are bored while writing, then, most importantly, you are doing it wrong, and you will bore your reader.

The verbal framework that helps us delimit the world is a consequence of the landscape of value that is constructed socially—but also bounded by the brute necessity of reality itself.

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

Pointing is, as well, a crucial precursor to the development of language. To name something—to use the word for the thing—is essentially to point to it, to specify it against everything else, to isolate it for use individually and socially.

If they fine me, I won't pay it. If they put me in jail, I'll go on a hunger strike. I'm not doing this. That's that. I am not using the words other people require me to use especially if they are made up by radical left-wing ideologues.

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

Pointing is, as well, a crucial precursor to the development of language.

Chaos is also the formless potential from which the God of Genesis 1 called forth order using language at the beginning of time. It's the same potential from which we, made in that Image, call forth the novel and ever-changing moments of our lives.

So, I'm communicating, as Freud so rightly stressed, even when silent.