Language Quotes
I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234
Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.
Our difficulties in understanding or effectuatingcommunication with other animals may arise from our reluctance to grasp unfamiliar ways of dealing with the world.
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
The moon was barely visible behind the pillows of clouds. Overhead, the lights caught the drizzle in a slow-motion light show.
Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don’t realize we are swimming in love.
Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.
Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!
There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh!
She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under
We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.
Kreon: here are Kreon's verbs for todayAdjudicateLegislateScandalizeCapitalizehere are Kreon's nounsMenReasonTreasonDeathShip of StateMineChorus: "mine" isn't a nounKreon: it is if you capitalize it
It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble
There are many languages in the world but the most widely spoken and understood by everyone are power, love and money.
It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.
The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…
We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world?
For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.
My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.
kisses... areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.
Sturm und Drang?”“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’
Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.
Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.
difference, distance, absence and seperation lie 'at the heart' of meaning, being and reality
