The Splendors Of Language Quotes & Sayings

The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life's indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of beauty is a non-negotiable requirement. Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time: elements change, are forgotten or reborn, and while there are instances where transgression can become the source of an even greater wealth, this does not alter the fact that to be entitled to the liberties of playfulness or enlightened misusage when using language, one must first and foremost have sworn one's total allegiance. Society's elect, those whom fate has spared from the servitude that is the lot of the poor, must, consequently, shoulder the double burden of worshipping and respecting the splendors of language. — Muriel Barbery

I don't want to kill you and you don't want to be dead. — Jonathan Maberry

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe. — A.W. Tozer

I went straight in. Fade in, one ... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. — Ronald Harwood

I'm always one time zone behind myself. — Eric Bana

I feared rejection.
I feared that love wouldn't last.
I feared that love would be used against me. To hurt me.
I feared that no one could really love me. — Willow Aster

Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.
Why do you love them?
Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do. — Jane Smiley

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. — Helen Reddy

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift. — Haruki Murakami

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden. — David Rusenko

I watched her sleep with the calm contentment of a boy who has no idea of how foolish he is, or what unexpected tragedies the following day will bring. — Patrick Rothfuss

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. — Peter Kreeft