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I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal. -- Gough Whitlam
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else. -- Garry Winogrand
...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime. -- Gad Saad
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. -- Clifford Geertz
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain. -- Gary Hamel
I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them. -- Adriana Barraza
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous. -- Oliver Ellsworth
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. -- Thomas Reid
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct. -- Emile Durkheim
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. -- Joanna Scott
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No one could correct my Spanish. And I think that I retreated to books as a way, you know, to be, like, masterful in a language that was really difficult for me for many years. -- Junot Diaz
Politically correct is the language of cowardice. -- Billy Connolly
If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. -- Confucius
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. -- Helene Cixous
... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them... -- Helene Cixous
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language -- Jean Rostand
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this. -- Criss Jami
In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top -- Kevin Dutton
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language. -- Charles de Lint
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things. -- Jimenez Lai

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