Language Quotes

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

By voluntarily adopting a dominated body posture you display the fact that you have accepted to be inferior.

Proper posture sends a positive message since 90% of all communication occures through body language and how you carry yourself.

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire

Love is the essence of life, Love is the universal language of all creation, Love is the eternal desire, Love is the life's flower with fragrance to share, So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

My body is a holy temple.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike.

Love is the universal language.

I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience.

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

Language is the art of experience

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Language is a virus from outer space

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that Idon't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something

Humor is a universal lanuage.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

No new world without a new language.

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.

He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.

The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.