Kurt Vonnegut
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ELAINE FISCHER JEANETTE WINTERSON I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say. INDU MURALIDHARAN MICHIO KAKU NOAM CHOMSKY SRI CHINMOY EDSGER DIJKSTRA About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain... EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA ROLAND BARTHES CICERO TOM ROBBINS STEPHEN FRY The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ... ANDRé ALEXIS Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta... CASEY MILLER Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta... CASEY MILLER MADS MIKKELSEN NEAL STEPHENSON TEMPLE GRANDIN I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things muc... B. D. 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He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He th... 
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so m... 
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead ... 
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. 
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. 
The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the l... 
Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul.... 
So many people understand language, but few people understand the real meaning of language. They tha... 
I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, wh... 
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ... 
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. 
In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are conside... 
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. 
The language of the heart
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain... 
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,... 
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ... 
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. 
There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphr... 
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as mu... 
Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made hea... 
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what'... 
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th... 
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language ... 
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or... 
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to ... 
In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a r... 
Language as a Prison
'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. ... 
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken langu... 
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of ... 
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebrati... 
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary th... 
I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from ... 
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. 
The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ... 
I've done two remakes, 'Rowdy Rathore' and 'Son of Sardaar,' and I see nothing w... 
The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. 
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. 
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall ... 
Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity. 
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly a... 
Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own str... 
...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. 
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv... 
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the... 
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we... 
My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV. 
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ... 
Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been... 