2,489 Quotes About Language

Mathematics is just a language of instruction.

Not to pun at all would be more challenging than most people might imagine.

Poets and writers are always truth-seekers... I just want people to talk with honest language about what is happening.

Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. It's a question of using the English language in a way that will achieve the greatest clarity and strength.

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].

…the opposite of man is woman. Language enable us to deny this, but makes affirmation easier.

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.