Ordinary Language Quotes
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Ordinary Language Quotes & Sayings
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I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.
— Koren Zailckas
...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't win an argument with an argument.
— Sukant Ratnakar
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
— George Bernard Shaw
You cannot work with men who won't work with you.
— John Harvey Kellogg
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when wewant to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
He needed them to translate his extraordinary ambition into the ordinary language understood by corporate America.
— Michael Lewis
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
— Idina Menzel
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
— J.L. Austin
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
— William Stafford
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night.
— Laura Shepard Townsend
Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.
— CeeLo Green
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
— Christopher Lasch
Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
