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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. — Dana Spiotta

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

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior. — Greg L. Bahnsen

...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

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back. — Hakim Bey

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

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

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

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. — Peter Akinola

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

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

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. — Donald Knuth

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. — Adrian Mitchell

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

Another way you can be nicer to yourself is by replacing some of that asshole language that you use toward yourself in your head. — Robert Duff

For the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies. — Alfred The Great

It has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors. — Chris Hedges

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. — Samuel Johnson

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. — Carol Shields

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

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

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

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

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

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. — Theo Van Gogh

Here you are, obsessed with romantic language-a language invented for expression between lovers-and you use it to spread animosity. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

It's fine. I use foul language and you bust up small mountains." I examined the rubble around us. "We each have our coping mechanisms. — Ashlan Thomas

To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. — Rebecca Solnit

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

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. — Edward Hirsch

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean. — Zia Haider Rahman

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

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit
a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets. — Mahmoud Darwish

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 functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse

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

Language uses us as much as we use language. — Robin Lakoff

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. — Lauren Stamile

To use folk language, vernacular in a manner neither exotic nor comic, neither minstrelized nor microscopically analyzed. — Toni Morrison

you can invite trouble if you slouch, avoid eye contact, use vague, imprecise language, and are generally sloppy in your attire. — Carmine Gallo

I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language. — Aimee Bender

The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language. — Nina Power

To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past. — Daniel Kahneman

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. — Joyce Carol Oates

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. — William Carlos Williams

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

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language. — Margaret Cho

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't use language instrumentally — Jordan B. Peterson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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