Famous quotes containing the words language, services and/or act:
“The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.”
—Edward Gibbon (17371794)
“Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do ... is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our mutedness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.”
—Dale Spender (b. 1943)
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