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“The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.”

People Past Language Can Do Insight Hereafter

Book:the American Language

Source: the American Language

“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”

Want Believe Done Language Can Do Knowing

Author:Denis Donoghue

“I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.”

Thinking Knows I Can Culture Names Language Given Can Do Great Things Defined Compliment

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.”

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”

Children Culture Language Can Do Empathy Sympathy Outlook Imaginative Foreign Language Useful Things Culture And Language Language Culture Foreign Culture

Author:Michael Gove

“All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions

“the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.”

Looks May Mean Littles I Can Language Can Do Library Forests Grim Alphabet

Author:Mary Kingsley

“Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.”

Way Mean Littles Different Language Bits Can Do Talking Little Bit South Southern Yankees Nuance Way Of Talking

Author:Lewis Grizzard

“Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe are to continue talking about "data" in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.”

Whole Language Can Do Justice Talking Failing Originals Symbols Data Distinction Fullness Richness Qualitative

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930

“You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.”

People World Way Want Believe Law Culture Language Can Do Millions Imagine Products Fine Safe Okay Boring Trapped Traps Want U Cradle Molecules

Book:Invisible Monsters Remix

Source: Invisible Monsters Remix

“There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.”

Thinking World Needs Long I Can Book Language Can Do Hiding Insightful Rubbish Can Do Something

Author:Robert Coover

“I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE SENCE OF HUMOR I HAVE. ALL THE STUFF I TALK ABOUT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHURCH GROUPS HOWEVER WAL-MART AINT SUNDAY SCHOOL. AS LONG AS I DIDNT USE OFFENSIVE FOUL LANGUAGE I KNEW ID BE FINE. WAL-MART GETS IT, THATS WHY THEY BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION. BESIDES ITS THERE STORE THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THATS AMERICA BABY!”

Want Years May Long Use School America Language Stuff Can Do Church Laughing Groups Baby Fine Jokes Competition Blow Stores Appropriate Sunday Offensive Foul Sunday School Foul Language

Author:Larry the Cable Guy