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“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”

Thinking Knows Giving Writing Book Able Language Answers Walks Steps Class Trouble Feet Give Me Magazines Coaching Yarn Centipedes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.”

Knows Dies Language Loses

Author:Patricia Ryan

“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.”

Knows Character Seems Language Sound Pages Plot Rude Juvenile Adverbs

Author:Colum McCann

“I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.”

Knows Way Writing Ideas Next Language Steps Know How No Idea Programming Logical Programming Languages

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.”

Knows Needs Language

Book:Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

“Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.”

Knows Language Baby Civilization Essentials Ingredients Speakers

Author:Charlton Laird

“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.”

Knows School Language Mistake Speech Sentences Native Speakers Grammar Same Mistakes

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk