Language Quotes
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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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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The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
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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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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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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
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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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My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.
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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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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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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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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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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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Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
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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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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
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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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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
