Where Language Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

• To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,… — Roland Barthes
• We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry
• 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
• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of… — N. Scott Momaday
• One must not be shy where language is concerned. — Ann Patchett
• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland
• 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
• I want to start where language ends. — Antony Gormley
• Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word… — Michael Gazzaniga
• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich
• Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus… — Martin Amis
• Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. — Barry Lopez
• True creativity often starts where language ends. — Arthur Koestler

Who Wrote These Where Language Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Where Language Quotes as follows:

• 1 Where Language Quote by Roland Barthes
• 1 Where Language Quote by Debbie Harry
• 1 Where Language Quote by A. S. Byatt
• 1 Where Language Quote by N. Scott Momaday
• 1 Where Language Quote by Ann Patchett
• 1 Where Language Quote by Eavan Boland
• 1 Where Language Quote by Charlie Byrd
• 1 Where Language Quote by Antony Gormley
• 1 Where Language Quote by Michael Gazzaniga
• 1 Where Language Quote by Adrienne Rich
• 1 Where Language Quote by Martin Amis
• 1 Where Language Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Where Language Quote by Barry Lopez
• 1 Where Language Quote by Arthur Koestler