Language Quotes
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.
