Language Services Act

Famous quotes containing the words language, services and/or act:

“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)

“O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman’s services are due.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)