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Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Quotes by Peter Bichsel

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to...

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Quotes by Peter Agre

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Quotes by Peter Akinola

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Quotes by Pete du Pont

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.

Quotes by Per Petterson

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

Quotes by Penelope Keith

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

Quotes by Paula Malcomson

Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.

Quotes by Paula Malcomson

In the Hebrew language, there's no such word as coincidence.

Quotes by Paula White

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

Quotes by Paul Westerberg

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Quotes by Paul Tillich

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Quotes by Paul Theroux

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed...

Quotes by Paul Ryan

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other...

Quotes by Paul Provenza

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

Quotes by Paul Horn

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Quotes by Paul Johnson

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Quotes by Paul Graham

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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