#language

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#bar #beaten #beautiful #comes #even

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#always #certain #certain way #language #poets

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. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#animal #based #convince #countries #decision-making

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#boundless #brother #door #embrace #energy

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#between #both #both sides #confrontation #cooperation

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. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#answer #ask #did #documents #founding

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. ↗

— William Safire

#bloggers #bottom #confined #down #engaged

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hands #language #rolls #slang #sleeves