“ 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. Frank Herbert
“ Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness. Philip Zaleski
“ His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw Barbara W. Tuchman
“ Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the… Lewis Carroll
“ Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental illness in human beings.'Huh?'Quite so. The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsi… Tom Robbins
“ Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer rea… Roy Peter Clark
“ House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly ap… Barbara W. Tuchman
“ Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. Harold Bloom
“ He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". A.A. Milne
“ The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln Harold Holzer
