2,489 Quotes About Language
- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
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- Author Matt Haig
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Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives
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- Author Peter Sloterdijk
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In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message' (more commonly, 'linguistic turn'). 'Being that can be be understood is language', Heidegger would later state - which conversely implies that language abandoned by being becomes mere chatter.
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- Author Jim George
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Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
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- Author Steven Pinker
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I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.
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- Author Stephen King
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...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank" (27-8).
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- Author Spyridon Marinatos
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To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
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- Author Jude Deveraux
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You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.
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- Author John Capecci and Timothy Cage
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You don’t need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly and imaginatively for others.
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