Language Quotes
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You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.
Warwick Thornton -
The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Andreï Makine
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Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Terence McKenna -
For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
Albert Camus -
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
Anton Webern -
Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
Denis Donoghue -
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
Willa Cather
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My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.
Kató Lomb -
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Edwin Newman -
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna -
Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.
Elena Ferrante -
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.
Tom Cruise -
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Seneca the Younger
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
Keith Crown -
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'
Gerard K. O'Neill -
All language is a popularity contest.
Erin McKean -
A national language is a band of national union.
Noah Webster -
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.
Judith Butler
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Arthur Helps -
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
Terry Eagleton -
Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
Deborah Levy -
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.
Bel Kaufman