Grammar Quote by John Burnside

“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and…

— Katrina Karkazis

“Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction…

— Frank Gohlke

“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.”

— Arthur Plotnick

“We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived…

— Baruch Spinoza

“He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken…

— Rita Leganski

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical…

— Albert Einstein

“The body is something that we have gathered through what we eat and mind is an accumulation of impressions.”

— Sadguru

“There are several ways for a body to be a body, and several ways for consciousness to be consciousness.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

— Frederick Lenz

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of…

— Henry Sweet