Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language; one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.
The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
