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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

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

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

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

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

Those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either. — Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance. — Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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