Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image ““But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.”” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I wish I could convey the perfection... But language founders in such seas” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.” — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk… — Robert K. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity” — Brian Kiteley 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
“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
“We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image