Language Quotes

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental… — Edward Sapir
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code — Clifford Geertz
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. — Gregory Bateson
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are… — Washington Irving
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will… — Unknown Author
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so… — Charlie Byrd
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you — Fernando Lamas
On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,… — Helene Cixous
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create… — Moshe Feldenkrais
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -… — Salman Rushdie
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to… — Harvey Mansfield
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. — Henri Matisse
But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some… — Howard Gardner
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out… — Unknown Author
A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects… — Olivier Messiaen
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words. — P.J. O'Rourke
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in… — Heinrich Himmler

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