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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. — Edsger Dijkstra

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead. — Steve Chandler

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over. — Rodney Ulyate

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. — Daniel Kahneman

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. — Grace Paley

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language. — Boris Johnson

...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon. — Robert K. Tanenbaum

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — Rebecca Solnit

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language' ... you're not putting the person first. — Stuart Duncan

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! — Naomi Shihab Nye

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. — Sean Lennon

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. — Frederick Lenz

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words. — Matthew Clark

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The meaning of a word is its use in the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on. — Marshall McLuhan

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do. — Tibor Kalman

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs. — Harold Pinter

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. — Gertrude Stein

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.' — Phil Robertson

Language makes infinite use of finite media. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. — John Wesley

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. — Terry Brooks

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it. — Noorilhuda

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. — Jeff Lindsay

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives. — Ntozake Shange

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence. — Frederick Buechner

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with — Amy Tan

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. — Barack Obama

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? — Lois Lowry

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use. — Philip Kitcher

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation. — Chris Crutcher

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. — Virginia Woolf

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] — Northrop Frye

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. — Eudora Welty

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. — Jarvis Cocker

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. — Evelyn Waugh

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we're in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind. — Sharon Salzberg

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience. — Michael Hyatt

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it. — Anthony Marra

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. — Martin Walser

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy. — Sherman Alexie

Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. — Mark Pearce

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. — Rumi

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. — Eugene Wigner

The Holy Bible is the Language of Heaven; you cannot use the Language of the World to interpret the Holy Bible. — Felix Wantang

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. — Mike Mansfield

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me. — Andrea Bocelli

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code. — David Parnas

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. — Robert Morgan

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. — Francois Hollande

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. — Jean-Paul Sartre

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. — Howard Hodgkin

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively. — Ellen Lupton

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic. — Richard Rohr

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates

How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. — Thomas S. Monson

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't use language instrumentally — Jordan B. Peterson

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes

The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. — Sufjan Stevens

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language Barrier We use Latin terms To make us feel smart and sharp (Nobody else cares) — J.D. Dupuy

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture. — John H. Walton

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. — Ron Jeffries

All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past — Jorge Luis Borges

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. — Samuel Beckett

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. — Jack Prelutsky

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning. — Saint Augustine

In your sales pitch use plain language, and as simply as you can, explain exactly how your service works. — Timi Nadela

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised. — NoViolet Bulawayo

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity. — Ann Widdecombe

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. — Joseph Joubert

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

But for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. — Robin Sharma

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool. — Nicola Griffith

Undoubtedly Italians use hand gestures and body language more creatively and prolifically than other European cultures. — Ross King

Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses. — Neal Stephenson

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. — Eugene Schwartz

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars — Timothy Leary

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense. — Peter Slezak

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. — Tom Robbins

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. — David Crystal

depends on all of the people who use the language. — Philip Hill

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. — Etgar Keret