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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
— Jose Saramago
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
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
— Rodney Ulyate
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
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
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.
— Charles De Lint
After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.
— Harry G. Frankfurt
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
— Michael Polanyi
I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'
— Phil Robertson
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
— Hippocrates
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
They who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact ... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
— William Carlos Williams
Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.
— Evelyn Waugh
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?
— Swami Vivekananda
God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.
— Douglas Wilson
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
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 job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
— William Carlos Williams
To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.
— Rebecca Solnit
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
The conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.
— Orson Scott Card
I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.
— Aimee Bender
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
— William Stafford
The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.
— William C. Brown
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
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
— Francois Hollande
depends on all of the people who use the language.
— Philip Hill
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
— Peter Slezak
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.
— Neal Stephenson
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
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
— Joseph Joubert
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
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
The Holy Bible is the Language of Heaven; you cannot use the Language of the World to interpret the Holy Bible.
— Felix Wantang
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
— Eugene Wigner
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
— Mark Pearce
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
— George Henry Lewes
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
