We might possess every technological resource . . . but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be “revolutionary”...

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge…

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers; you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

On my fifth trip to France I limited myself to the words and phrases that people actually use. From the dog owners I learned “Lie down,” “Shut up,” and “Who shit on this carpet?” The...

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded...

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use...

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

People of very different opinions–friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility–are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial comma or an expression like more unique....

The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged ‘condensations’ around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being...

You may think that you don’t need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will come to your rescue. And I get it: spell check and grammar check...

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Language is visibly invisible, and a foreign language is camouflaged. In another language, I love you may appear like common tree bark.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if...

The findings in this atlas are speaking a very clear language,

As I’m sure you know, there are two types of “What?” in the world. The first type simply means “Excuse me, I didn’t hear you. Could you please repeat yourself?” The second type is a...

It is hard to see anything as true as saying nothing.

The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he...

Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words.I don’t believe in “sadness”, “joy”, or “regret”.Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my...

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the soul in order that sound may not mar the ecstasy of...

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to...

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the...

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins.

The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him – *blush*

Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind.

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears merry and playful; but to say one goes on vacation is to speak...

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

She walks to a tableShe walk to table She is walking to a tableShe walk to table now What difference does it makeWhat difference it make In Nature, no completenessNo sentence really complete thought Language,...

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society. One way of describing his work is to say that he...

Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It really wouldn’t matter much if we started dropping the s from...

But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books...

Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it…

Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the...

ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters” from other tongues and cultures.