Language Quotes - Page 20

• Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

  Casey Miller

  Writing, Prejudice

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

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• Grammar is the analysis of language.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Analysis, Grammar

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1305, Ageless Reads

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• This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Writing, Doe

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

  Sol Stein

  Writing, Dialogue

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.113, St. Martin's Press

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• Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

  Sol Stein

  Writing, Views, Speech

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.110, St. Martin's Press

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• Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Writing, Defining, Framework

  'Thinking in Primitive Communities' in Hoyer (ed.) 'New Directions in the Study of Language' 1964

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

  Washington Irving

  Writing, Principles, Human Nature

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Partners, Indispensable

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.111, SIU Press

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• Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

  Hyman Bass

  Teaching, Math, Thinking

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• A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

  Charlie Waite

  Photography, Cutting, Political

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• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

  Bruno Barbey

  Photography, Understanding, World

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• Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Chess, Firsts

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• Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

  David Crystal

  Technology, People, Mind

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the heart. Babies speak a universal language.

  Anne Geddes

  Photography, Baby, Heart

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• Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Might, Photographer

  Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.7, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Vocabulary, Complexity

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

  A. E. Douglass

  Nature, Book, Epic

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• Photography is a language more universal than words.

  Minor White

  Photography, Photographer, Universal

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• Language is much closer to film than painting is.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Painting, Film

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

  David Perkins

  Teaching, Learning, Vocabulary

  David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

  Charles Kay Ogden

  Air, Magic, Belief

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• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Science, Names

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Keys, Special, Literature

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• Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

  Jay Leno

  President, Hussein, Baghdad

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