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“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”

Men Language Standing Opposites Embrace Converses Hemisphere

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.”

Knows May Real Happens Reading Language Nature Opposites Hasty Syntax Intricacy

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.”

“Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.”

Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

“A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.”

Source: Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition: A Text with Exercises

“So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.”

World Persons Ends Facts Speak Language College Becoming Opposites Native Apologizing Multicultural Knowledge Of The World Native Language

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.”

Way Writing May Ends Stories Language Creative Middle Example Tests Opposites Storytelling Logical Creative Writing

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom.”

Needs Mean Has Beens Said Language Wealth Democracy Opposites Really Mean Billionaire Obscene

Author:Arundhati Roy

“If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most important challenge of our times.”

“My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.”

Firsts Soul Language Planets Concepts Opposites Betrayal Loyalty Our Planet Traitor

Book:The Host

Source: The Host

“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”

People Ifs Language Talking Clear Communication Terrible Opposites Let Me Function Errors Grammar Transparent Correcting Facilitate Clear Communication

Author:John Green

“I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have been able, through awareness, to transform your hate into love. Even to say that you have been able to transform it is not right, but what else to do with language? Whatever you say, something is wrong in saying it, something goes wrong in saying it. The fact is, awareness itself transforms your hate into love, not that you transform it. Your work and function is simply to remain aware. Don't let anything happen in your life without awareness.”

World Love Has Beens Facts Happens Able Remember Hate Language Awareness Opposites Function Things Happen Whatever You Say

Author:Rajneesh

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.”

Writing Book Reality Language Opposites Accomplish Good Writers

Book:Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee

“In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.”

Shows Body Language Emotion Opposites Chess Boards Display Body Language

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.”