High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the... →
Aristotle
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got... →
Alan Arkin
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
Richard Armitage
'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
Raymond Arroyo
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
Julian Assange
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will... →
John Astin
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden