The moment of inspiration can come from memory or language or the imagination or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country one language one flag!

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history their literary history their movie literacy their culture their language their religion whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that nor do I want to.

We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

Science is the international language so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science that's a real success story for us.

Take all that is given whether wealth love or language nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

I think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Sarcasm I now see to be in general the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

And poets in my view and I think the view of most people do speak God's language - it's better it's finer it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

What appeals to me? There are things points of view uses of the language habits of dress ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation no matter what the future may hold.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history beyond our language beyond the links that have united us for so long what unites us today is the future.

The future author is one who discovers that language the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language will serve him in winning through to his way.