Language Play Quotes
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Language Play Quotes & Sayings
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Traveling is more funhell, life is more fun
if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson
Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists,
— Yann Martel
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
— Zakes Mda
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
— Imelda May
The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought
— Albert Einstein
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
— Abigail Adams
Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.
— Dino Kartsonakis
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play.
— Carol Ann Duffy
I have never failed, I've only shown the way I did it before doesn't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
— George Carlin
It is proper Netiquette to post pictures with status updates to make them more engaging.
— David Chiles
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
— Marilyn Monroe
Relationships are built on the good and the bad, it's how we handle each situation that defines our character.
— Melody Anne
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
— Niels Bohr
Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
— Neil Gaiman
Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that.""I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said. — Rachel Caine
If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you.
— Apoorve Dubey
When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
I write because I love to play with language.
— W. H. Auden
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
— Charlie Munger
I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.
— Kristian Bush
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
— Russell Baker
Language is play to most writers, thoughts are play.
— Stephen King
Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
— David Crystal
Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.
— Tom Kelley
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
— Harry Knowles
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
— Irrfan Khan
People invade your space and offend your sensibilities because, to be plain, they couldn't care less about you.
— Laurie Graham
And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
— Randy Newman
Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.
— Helen Vendler
A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.
— Zephyr Teachout
