Quotes about Language Use

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. Votes: 3

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. Votes: 3

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. Votes: 3

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two. Votes: 3

There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed. Votes: 3

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. Votes: 3

More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact. Votes: 3

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. Votes: 3

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. Votes: 3

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. Votes: 3

Language makes infinite use of finite media. Votes: 2

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. Votes: 2

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. Votes: 2

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. Votes: 2

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool. Votes: 2

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Votes: 2

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us. Votes: 2

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. Votes: 2

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. Votes: 2

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. Votes: 2

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. Votes: 2

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. Votes: 2

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. Votes: 2

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. Votes: 2

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.' Votes: 2

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. Votes: 2

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour. Votes: 2

Great men, like nature, use simple language. Votes: 0

Language uses us as much as we use language. Votes: 0

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars Votes: 0

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. Votes: 0

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. Votes: 0

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience. Votes: 0

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead. Votes: 0

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. Votes: 0

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. Votes: 0

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. Votes: 0

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. Votes: 0

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. Votes: 0

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. Votes: 0

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. Votes: 0

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. Votes: 0

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do. Votes: 0

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it. Votes: 0

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Votes: 0

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. Votes: 0

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code. Votes: 0

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. Votes: 0

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Votes: 0

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. Votes: 0

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. Votes: 0

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. Votes: 0

If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala Votes: 0

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. Votes: 0

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language. Votes: 0

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. Votes: 0

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. Votes: 0

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' Votes: 0

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. Votes: 0

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior. Votes: 0

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything. Votes: 0

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. Votes: 0

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. Votes: 0

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. Votes: 0

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Votes: 0

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. Votes: 0

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. Votes: 0

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. Votes: 0

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. Votes: 0

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. Votes: 0

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. Votes: 0

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with Votes: 0

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. Votes: 0

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. Votes: 0

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning. Votes: 0

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. Votes: 0

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. Votes: 0

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. Votes: 0

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. Votes: 0

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. Votes: 0

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. Votes: 0

But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. Votes: 0

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. Votes: 0

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs. Votes: 0

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code. Votes: 0

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first. Votes: 0

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Votes: 0

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. Votes: 0

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. Votes: 0

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music. Votes: 0

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. Votes: 0

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways. Votes: 0

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. Votes: 0

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. Votes: 0

The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. Votes: 0

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment. Votes: 0

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I read 'Sabella or The Blood Stone' by Tanith Lee, which was hugely influential to me. I love Tanith's writing. She's just really lyrical, beautiful use of language. Votes: 0

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. Votes: 0

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning. Votes: 0

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure. Votes: 0

I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect. Votes: 0

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks. Votes: 0

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety. Votes: 0

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. Votes: 0

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] Votes: 0

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]" Votes: 0

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story. Votes: 0

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out. Votes: 0

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes. Votes: 0