Language Quotes (page 48)

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• work
• busy life
• busy

To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being. S. I. Hayakawa

• evening
• cannot
• revolutionaries

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. Raymond Aron

• drawing
• education
• good

We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a... Thomas Moore

• cat
• humanity
• biology

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology. Steven Pinker

• god
• silence
• silenced

Silence is the only language god speaks. Charles Simic

• feeling
• owned
• owns

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. Paul Auster

• mother
• heart
• power

The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit....Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot... R. A. Salvatore

• style
• styling
• lacks

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Tom Stoppard

• feeling
• feels
• knowingly

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel Constantin Stanislavski

• english
• beautiful
• summer

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James

• saying
• personality
• aesthetic

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true. J. R. R. Tolkien

• simple
• powerful
• power

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result) Charles Bukowski

• chef
• cooking
• job

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. Anthony Bourdain

• law
• being ignored
• ignorance

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. Gilles Deleuze

• women
• words
• begins

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. Terry Tempest Williams