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The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. -- Robert Bly
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
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. -- Neville Marriner
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
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
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
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. -- Kathy Acker
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. -- Andrew Bird
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. -- Fred Frith
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak. -- Armando Iannucci
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. -- David Crystal
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. -- Alonzo Church
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place. -- Marian Keyes
Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks. -- Anne Parillaud
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. -- Huston Smith
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. -- David Ogilvy
I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it. -- Kate Grenville
Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together. -- Ben Gibbard
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place. -- Josh Homme
You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars -- Timothy Leary
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
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
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. -- Daniel Kahneman
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. -- Gertrude Stein
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. -- Trevor Noah
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. -- Jeff Lindsay
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
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
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
I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. -- David Ogilvy
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety. -- W.S. Gilbert
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. -- Wilkie Collins

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