Language Quote by Thea van Diepen Download Open image ““Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.”” — Thea van Diepen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“Words aren’t just sounds and shapes. They’re meaning. That’s what language is: a protocol to transfer meaning...” — Max Berry Copy Share Image
“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We are speaking different languages, as always, but that doesn't change the things we talk about.” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.” — Joan Barfoot Copy Share Image
“Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.” — Lily King Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.… — Lily King 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
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle 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
