List Of Language Quotes

We Like To Pile Language On Language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] Was An Influence On Me, No Doubt About It.

I Arrived In The Middle Of A Press Conference - As Boring A Thing To Sit Through If You Don't Know The Language As It Is If You Do.

It Was Ronald Reagan Who Used To Say That The 10 Most Frightening Words In The English Language Are, "i'm From The Federal Government, And I'm Here To Help."

Clarity Of Language Is The First Casualty Of Authoritarianism.

The Language Poets Are Writing Only About Language Itself. The Ashbery Poets Are Writing Only About Poetry Itself. That Seems To Me A Kind Of Dead End.

It Was Less A Literary Thing Than A Linguistic, Philosophical Preoccupation... Discovering How Far You Can Go With Language To Create Immediate, Elementary Experience.

Part Of What We Love About Poetry Is The Fact That It Seems Ancient, That It Has An Authority Of Ancient Language And Ancient Form, And That It's Timeless, That It Reaches Back.

In The Best Fiction, The Language Itself Can Become Almost Invisible.

Poetry, Almost By Definition, Calls Attention To Its Language And Form.

Speaking Of Sir Winston Churchill: He Mobilized The English Language And Sent It Into Battle.

The Newest Computer Can Merely Compound, At Speed, The Oldest Problem In The Relations Between Human Beings, And In The End The Communicator Will Be Confronted With The Old Problem, Of What To Say And How To Say It.

Greek Was Very Much A Live Language, And A Language Still Unconscious Of Grammar, Not, Like Ours, Dominated By Definitions And Trained Upon Dictionaries.