A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
We live at the level of our language.
[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.
PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter Nike and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a h...
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue.