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Language Quotes by David Abram
- No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely…
- Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would…
- The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends…
- For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of…
- In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or…
- Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so…
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- Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to… — Mitch Albom
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard