Language Quotes
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Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.
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As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
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I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.
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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
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My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
