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Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language, -- Laurence Overmire
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about. -- Terence McKenna
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that. -- Walter Mosley
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil." -- Sam Hamill
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. -- Thom Yorke
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings. -- Abraham Maslow
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
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Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead. -- Kim Jong-hyun
I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. -- Richard Dawkins
Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about. -- Donna Jo Napoli
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. -- Willie Rushton
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement. -- Vladimir Putin
I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans. -- Hillary Clinton
To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach. -- Mallory Ortberg
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. -- Dean Falk
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
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. -- Woody Allen
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. -- Eyvind Kang
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. -- Douglas Crockford
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
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant, -- Andrew Dice Clay
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything. -- Larry Wall
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant. -- Andrew Dice Clay
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions -- Chow Yun-Fat
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. -- Chow Yun-Fat
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. -- James Merrill
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. -- Terry Pratchett
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect. -- Damien Chazelle
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. -- Laura Schlessinger
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. -- Dick Schaap
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. -- Charles Baudelaire
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. -- Kim Edwards
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs. -- Chris Patten

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