Language Use Quotes
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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
...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
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.
— Frederick Lenz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 brainA use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
— Nicola Griffith
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
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
— Peter Slezak
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
