Language Quotes · Page 473

“...he wonders by what process virtually any discussion about the war seems to profane these ultimate matters of life and death. As…

— Ben Fountain

With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…

— George Steiner

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although…

— Ida Hattemer-Higgins

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write…

— Stephen Fry

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will…

— Dean Koontz

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations…

— Christopher Dawson

“With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to…

— Paulo Freire

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think there is any scientific evidence about the question of whether we think only in language or not. But introspection…

— Noam Chomsky

“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit…

— Kory Stamper

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books,…

— Margaret Mahy

“English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French…

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within…

— Michel Foucault

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount…

— E. M. Forster

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has…

— Stromae

“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"…

— Gregory Maguire

“Among both the learned and the not so learned it is accepted that poetry can be the language of the emotions; what…

— R.D. Fitzgerald

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same…

— Roland Barthes

“ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative,…

— Samuel R. Delany

They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words…

— Rosser Reeves

“The “Word of God” is not simply the Christian Bible but exists in a threefold form: “The Word” incarnate (Jesus Followers’ King),…

— Gary F. Patton

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on…

— Herbert Spencer

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the…

— Antonin Artaud

“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor…

— Victor Hugo

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…

— Gerhard Richter

I think words speak to us even though they may be written on a wall. So we hear them in our mind.…

— Robert Barry

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they…

— Michael Perlis

The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the…

— Priyanka Chopra

Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To…

— Pascal Mercier

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are…

— Tom Waits

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks…

— Galway Kinnell

Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have…

— Rich Mullins

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard,…

— Barbara Johnson

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other…

— Zia Haider Rahman