“Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.” KnowsLanguagePleasureMistakeMaking MistakesSomething NewNobody KnowsEverybody Makes Mistakes Book:Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.” PeopleHas BeensBookLanguagePleasureMillionsNot SureDislikeEstatesRuinedJoyceUlysses Author:Kevin Myers
“Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.” WayLittlesFactsLightLanguagePleasureCasesDarknessMissingAmountImmenseNew WaysEnglish LanguageVirginiaWoolfLamentation Author:E. M. Forster
“Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.” ThinkingGivingLanguageTermPleasureMillionsUnited StatesLikesVery True Author:Agnes Repplier
“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.” WorldSelfUseLightTurnsLanguageNaturalPleasureGriefAttentionColorReaderPerceptionEatingSummerUniquePraiseShameInvestmentWitDawnCompassionateNatural WorldEnergeticSkillfulDestroyersOmnipotenceWhimsyJunctureApricots Author:Pattiann Rogers
“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.” LanguageBornNaturalPleasureFieldsDiscoveryGuides Author:Frances Mayes
“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.” LanguagePleasureInstitutionsConventionsArbitrary Author:Francois Rabelais
“Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.” WantKindNextLanguagePleasureFailingObjectsMarkIllDelightContraryEsteemThis LifeMannersTemperShockingFlatteryHypocriteDoing GoodDeservingAmiableGreatest Pleasures Author:Samuel Richardson
“The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.” WorldHas BeensHappensPurposeLanguageEasyTermWalksPleasureCircumstancesExerciseBenefitsClaimsSafetyEnvironmentalObviousSpeedPrivacyDigitalGymSustainabilityCommerceVagueFringeAmbiguousTreadmills Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.” KnowsBookAbleMovingLanguagePleasureBack And ForthSpanish And English Author:Pat Mora
“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.” PeopleMayActionDesireArtistCultureLanguagePleasureEthicsEverydayPhilosopherDialogueVarietyProductiveDiscoursePopular Culture Book:Utopian Entrepreneur Source: Utopian Entrepreneur
“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.” SaidTodayLyingSpeakLanguagePleasureLaughingReturnBearsTomorrowLowsFellowsRoundsIllTreatedEaseUnusualContestsViciousDisagreeableAbusiveCato Author:Seneca the Younger