Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.
J.K. RowlingThe language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word.
Tags: man people language weapons word barbarism sword
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Eugene H. PetersonTags: language
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
Angela CarterTags: language puppet doll undead mimcry
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
Markus ZusakTags: language curse ferocity cuss
With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.
Andrei CodrescuTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston BachelardTags: words reading books poetry literature language
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.
Aleister CrowleyWhat I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
Mark PesceTags: civilization language
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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