Language Use Quotes

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.

We were always scientifical in our raps.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

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.

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Anyone who listens to the Nixon White House would recognize that Nixon, who was in the Navy, was no stranger to profanity.

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

I haven't used that word since I was 7 years old. I don't understand Donald Trump.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with, then I use English because you need to make sure everyone understands what you are saying.

People find a way in which they can say something.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a kind of social space, to place itself in interactions with other people. It doesn't have much to do with communication in a narrow sense; that is, it doesn't involve transmission of information. There is much information transmitted but it is not the content of what is said that is transmitted.