A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard
High thoughts must have high language.
AristophanesWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler YeatsThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George OrwellLanguage is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyMan invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin and Jane WagnerPolitical language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellEven on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Michel de MontaigneThe leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric HofferThe bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom RobbinsThe English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard ShawIf language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
ConfuciusNo one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam RayburnOnly a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad AliPANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
Ambrose BierceThe human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
Gustave FlaubertThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George OrwellWe are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David ThoreauA wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
UnknownPoetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher FryThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinA different language is a different vision of life.
Federico FelliniMetric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
Dean KrakelEvery quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel JohnsonOwn only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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