Language Quotes
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.
We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.
that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
