Language Quotes

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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent… — David Antin
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living… — Will Self
The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language. — John Banville
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A. S. Byatt
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the… — Terry Pratchett
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a… — J.R.R. Tolkien
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' — Woody Allen
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel — Constantin Stanislavski
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God. — Katy Perry
You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine. — Willy Brandt
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did… — John Humphrys
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul. — Carl Jung
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… — Abraham Maslow
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom

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