Language Quote by Thomas Mann Download Open image ““.. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”” — Thomas Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Novella
“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt… — Mervin Miller Copy Share Image
“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.” — Nahiyan bin Asadullah Copy Share Image
“Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.” — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 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
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.” — Kiran Nagarkar 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
“that's what I wanted: words made of that: language / that could bend light.” — Jan Zwicky Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann 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