Language Game Quotes

#1. Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

#3. Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a 'footnote' to colonial history about the 'revolt' of the American colonies. Word choice and the organization of material gave the game away.

Arthur F. Holmes

#4. That's what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

Rachel Cohn

#5. The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

Michael Corbat

#6. Some men must create pain in others to feel less of it themselves.

Gerard Donovan

#7. Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Walter Kirn

#8. Colossal Cave (also known as Adventure - not to be confused with the Atari VCS game of the same name) was developed by assembly-language programmer William Crowther

Anonymous

#9. Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. If every word or device that achieved currency were immediately authenticated, simply on the grounds of popularity, the language would be as chaotic as a ball game with no foul lines

William Strunk Jr.

#11. I shrugged unable to deny I wasn't checking him out. "The new

Kirsty Dallas

#12. I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Dick Schaap

#13. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Henry Ford

#14. Language is a game and we're all players.

Marty Rubin

#15. Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

Pico Iyer

#16. The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez

#17. There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#18. I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Coco Chanel

#19. I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well,

Kapil Dev

#20. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

#21. The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

John Simon

#22. The others who'd been hanging around had eased back a bit, in their own conversations now as Jairo and the blond spoke very closely, their body language intimate. Huh. Jairo the naughty nurse has got some game. The

Darien Cox

#23. I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

Ben Hogan

#24. The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Jim Calhoun

#25. Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

Howie Mandel

#26. They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

George Mikes

#27. You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language.

Jeff Foxworthy