Quotes About Language

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.