Language Quotes
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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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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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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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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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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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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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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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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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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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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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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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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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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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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 we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
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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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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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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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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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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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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.
