Quotes About Language

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.

I said his name softly to myself. Lucky. Lucian Radcliffe. His name must come from the Latin lucianus, meaning light, and that's what he was, golden and bright. I didn't care what Jack's name meant. Probably Jackass.

Lo irreal no es lo opuesto a lo real, sino su lenguaje. Lo banal no es lo contrario de lo profundo, sino su fracaso. Lo trágico no es el reverso de lo cómico, sino su vecino. Lo antiguo no es la negación de lo nuevo, sino su futuro.

Emily always turned to language to soothe or lessen her distress. The letters could have served as a reminder of the pain she had experienced, but survived. Whatever purpose she had in writing remained a secret known only to her. She never shied away from looking anguish in the eye or contemplating its aftermath. To do so was an act of dominion over misery and resistance to inertia.

Home to her was much more. It was the wild terrain of her mind. A world of hummingbirds and crickets and alabaster and dots on a disc of snow. To Emily Dickinson, home was consciousness itself—a continent of language where metaphor was her native tongue.

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.

alpha, beta, gamma, delta

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.

And "weak" wasn't really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn't have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn't a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, "It's not weak." The

Impersonated is a weird word, especially in this context. (I just noticed that. Im-person-ated. Weird.)

No," he said, and added with devastating candor, "you were counting on me not being able to speak your language." Florian gestured helplessly. "Tremaine!" "What, so I'll get in trouble?" Annoyed, she shrugged and moved on up the corridor. "Maybe they'll force me to go to another world and fight heavily armed sorcerers who—Oh, wait, we're doing that already.

You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don't want to get confused at the wrong moment.

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.