Language Quotes
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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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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 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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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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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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We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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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.
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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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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
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I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language
