#lang

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

#joint #language #manual #ought #poets

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. ↗

— William Osler

#art #brief #difficult #language #men

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#everyday #feel #gifted #god #i

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! ↗

— Miranda Otto

#countries #england #i #if i could #interested

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#do you know #hold #i #keats #know

The world's most famous and popular language is music. ↗

— PSY

#language #most #music #popular #world

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. ↗

— PSY

#could #deeply #express #freedom #grateful

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

#cope #first #having #i #i have learned