Language Quotes
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.
Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.
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.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.