Habitually Spoken Language

Famous quotes containing the words habitually, spoken and/or language:

    The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    ...and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.”
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 24:2.

    The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is “only words” and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)