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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. -- Joseph Joubert
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. -- Harry Seidler
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. -- David Crystal
I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two. -- Talal Asad
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed. -- Jonathan Haidt
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry. -- Edward Hirsch
More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact. -- Tim Parks
As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. -- Noam Chomsky
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. -- Laura Linney
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. -- Lewis Thomas
Language makes infinite use of finite media. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. -- Peter Akinola
My use of language is part and parcel of my message. -- Theo Van Gogh
I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. -- Jarvis Cocker
If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool. -- Nicola Griffith
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us. -- John Burnside
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. -- Terry Brooks
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. -- Mike Mansfield
I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. -- Andy Lau
I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. -- Francois Hollande
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. -- Neville Marriner
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. -- Dana Spiotta
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. -- John M. Ford
I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.' -- Phil Robertson
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. -- Carol Shields
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation. -- Chris Crutcher
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me. -- Adrian Mitchell
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. -- John Milius
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour. -- Barry Humphries
Great men, like nature, use simple language. -- Luc de Clapiers
Language uses us as much as we use language. -- Robin Lakoff
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars -- Timothy Leary
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. -- Eudora Welty
...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies. -- Alfred the Great
Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience. -- Michael Hyatt
Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead. -- Kim Jong-hyun
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language. -- Edward Hirsch
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. -- John Wesley
Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. -- Robin Sharma
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. -- John McCain
There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. -- Eugene Schwartz
Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. -- Vallabhbhai Patel
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are. -- Etgar Keret
Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do. -- Tibor Kalman
He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it. -- Noorilhuda
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. -- Tom Robbins
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. -- Robert Bly
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code. -- David Parnas
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. -- Mark Pearce
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. -- Frederick Lenz
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. -- Frederick Lenz
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. -- Eugene Wigner
If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala -- James Gosling
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. -- Eric Hoffer
I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language. -- Jill Stein
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. -- Chinua Achebe
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. -- George Henry Lewes
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. -- Howard Hodgkin
There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior. -- Greg L. Bahnsen
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything. -- Howard Hodgkin
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. -- Gertrude Stein
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. -- Herbert Marcuse
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. -- Karl Kraus
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. -- Toyo Ito
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. -- Michael Polanyi
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. -- Daniel Kahneman
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. -- Monica Youn
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. -- Trevor Noah
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. -- Grace Paley
Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with -- Amy Tan
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. -- Mos Def
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable. -- Martin Walser
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning. -- Saint Augustine
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. -- William Carlos Williams
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. -- Ron Jeffries
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. -- Jeff Lindsay
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. -- Jerome Kern
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. -- Donald Knuth
But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. -- Jack Prelutsky
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. -- Hippocrates
The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. -- Barack Obama
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs. -- Harold Pinter
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code. -- William Stafford
If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first. -- Stuart Duncan
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. -- Daniel Kahneman
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. -- Virginia Woolf
Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. -- Jesmyn Ward
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music. -- Philip Glass
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways. -- Lucy Calkins
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it." -- Siri Hustvedt
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. -- Ron Jeffries
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. -- Siri Hustvedt
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
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. -- C. S. Lewis
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. -- Evelyn Waugh
The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use. -- Jim Rohn
I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy. -- Sherman Alexie
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse. -- W. H. Auden
Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense. -- Lauren Stamile
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use. -- Philip Kitcher
Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways. -- Satish Kumar
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? -- Lois Lowry
I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity. -- Ann Widdecombe
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence. -- Frederick Buechner
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. -- Rumi
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one? -- Swami Vivekananda
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives. -- Ntozake Shange
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. -- Charles Stross

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