Blow Quote by Emile M. Cioran Download Open image “To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.” — Emile M. Cioran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blow Inspirational Language World
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings,… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. — Joe Garagiola Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker. — Jessica Hahn Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Truth is, right now two bombs could drop out of the sky and blow up this house and whatever building you're in and just… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image