Language Quotes
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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.
Terence McKenna -
Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
Rich Mullins
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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Terry Eagleton -
There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
Stephen Fry -
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit.
Mike Leigh -
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.
Noy Holland -
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
Terence McKenna -
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Music truly is the universal language.
Herbie Hancock -
If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
Simon Sinek -
A "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
Ben Lerner -
He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
John Ruskin -
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
Sean O'Casey -
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
Miguel de Unamuno
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If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
Rex Harrison -
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
Etgar Keret -
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
Stephen Fry -
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder -
What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson -
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
Carolyn Maloney
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Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy
Esther Perel -
Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra -
My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
Chika Anadu -
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.
George Horace Lorimer