1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for. David Mamet

It doesn't matter where you come from. Running is a universal sport and universal language. David McNeill

You Matter Language Running Come Sport Where Universal Universal Language

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell

Welcome Language Philosophical Ideas Were Where Milieu

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

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick

Happy Language Tough Wish Practice Enough Everything Complex Would Constant Pretty Russian Write Sooner Most Well Read Without Understand Am Than Letter Things Speech

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational. David Small

Love Great Thoughts Words Language Else Way Great Ones More Excellent Writer Writers Putting Obsessed Like Know Makes Lot Handful Than Anybody Sensational Them Really Special Even

For those whose exclusive norm of constitutional judging is merely fair reading of language applied to facts objectively viewed, 'Brown' must either be flat-out wrong or a very mystifying decision. David Souter

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. Dee Hock

Language Deal Huge Expansion Information Capacity

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. Deion Sanders

Dog Passion Language Fire Back Got African-American Means Your

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.' Demetri Martin

You Writing Money Language Think Paper Would Would-Be More Computer Like Looks Forceful Said Were Clip Up Get Note Should Use Your Help Cool Need

Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot

Music Good Language Good Music Primitive Very Close

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts. Denis Johnson

When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same. Denis Villeneuve

Work Music Language Big Say Rapport See Beyond French Big Difference Same Difference Different Depths Team English Actor

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. Dennis Ritchie

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second phase was slower; it all took place within a very few years, but it was a bit slower, so it seemed. Dennis Ritchie

Change Language Too Much First Few Too Changes Took Type Adding Syntax Bit Slower Some Seemed Structure First Phase Within Without Doing Years Very Short Place Much Really Succession Phase Second Phases Two

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble. Derek Walcott

Music You Language Trouble Out Bad Goes Then

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp. Derek Walcott

Character You People Language Active Preserved Melody Would Exact Minor Some Shakespeare Sharp Talking Because Hear Hear People Very Get Barbados Fantastic Swift Thing Here Phenomena

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Diane Ackerman

Together Lie Emotions Language Moods Poem Only Records Beyond Normal

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. Diane Wakoski

Love Today Sometimes Language Spoken Irish Why

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. Diane Wakoski

Attitude Women Language Sex Beauty Think Those One Of The Things Poets Contain Toward Attitudes Ideas Involved Because Very Getting Conventional Etc Race Certain Away Things

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Dick Cavett

Language Thought Sloppy Leads Legislation

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