(1563 quotes found)
“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get”
Mark Twain
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
Lily Tomlin
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
Benjamin Lee Whorf
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real"”
Neale Donald Walsch
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot
“If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides”
Rita Mae Brown
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read”
