#language

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#theology

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#conservatives #heart #language #music #screw

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mixture #statement

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#hidden #language #like #moon #power

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dying #earth #every #hear #i

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#best #best way #colorful #concrete #couched