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Use Of Language Quotes (page 3)

Bjarne Stroustrup quote: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people..."
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. Bjarne Stroustrup
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. Wilkie Collins
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. David Ogilvy
Francois Hollande quote: "I am attached to the French language. I will defend the..."
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. Francois Hollande
Hippocrates quote: "The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and..."
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Hippocrates
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. Irvine Welsh
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. Diane Wakoski
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. Marilyn Hacker
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
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. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Michael Polanyi quote: "Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words..."
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. Michael Polanyi
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation. Ezra Pound
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience. Chinua Achebe
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. Robert A. Heinlein

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