But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to... →
Alice Oswald
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we... →
Cynthia Ozick
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio... →
Mark Pagel
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.