Language Quote by Jorge Luis Borges Download Open image ““All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”” — Jorge Luis Borges ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Time
“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.” — Bernard Bloch and George L Trager Copy Share Image
“There is always a point of view in language, but we are apt to notice it only when it is not one we share.” — Deborah Cameron Copy Share Image
“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There is ... a great wisdom in our language. It is the embodiment of innumerable experiences of the past. It is not by chance… — The Shaking of the Foundations Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we… — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also have a… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
