Quotes About Language

Poetry is dancing with words.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Whom do we speak to, and how do we encode our messages? How can we be heard or read, even after we are dead?

Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking

Similarly—and more in line with the sorts of factors that may play a role in acquiring skills with practice—nine-month-old infants who paid more attention to a parent as that parent was reading a book and pointing to the pictures in the book grew up to have a much better vocabulary at five years of age than infants who paid less attention.

perfect pitch is much more common among people who speak a tonal language, such as Mandarin, Vietnamese, and several other Asian tongues, in which the meaning of words is dependent on their pitch.

it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language.

Undoubtedly the novel has means of its own—language not the image is its material, its intimate effect on the isolated reader is not the same as that of a film on the crowd in a darkened cinema—but precisely for these reasons the differences in aesthetic structure make the search for equivalents an even more delicate matter, and thus they require all the more power of invention and imagination from the film-maker who is truly attempting a resemblance. One

Elle me dit son nom, celui qu'elle s'est choisi: « Nadja, parce qu'en russe c'est le commencement du mot espérance, et parce que ce n'en n'est que le commencement.

The Word is more, and, for the cabalists, it is nothing less, for example, than that in the image of which the human soul is created; we know that it has been traced back to the point of being the initial example of the cause of causes; it is, therefore, as much in what we fear as in what we write, as in what we love

Milagre da literatura, quando é verdadeira.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Bir zamanlar kimi modalar kad?nlar?n bedenini erkeklerin gözlerinden bütünüyle gizleyerek kabar?k bir giysiye de?er katt??? gibi duygular?n kapal?l??? da, tutkular?n al???lm?? belirtilerini perdeleyerek dilin fark edilmez inceliklerinin de?erini ve güzelli?ini ortaya ç?kar?r.

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence

Anak-anak di Nusantara, sejauh yang saya amati dan pahami, sering diajarkan bahasa secara tak konsisten. Di rumah maupun di sekolah, bahasa yang digunakan kerap tidak hanya satu. Keadaan ini sendiri sebetulnya tidak apa-apa; sebaliknya sangat bermanfaat bagi anak-anak jika mereka mendengar lebih dari satu bahasa sejak kecil. Hanya saja, penggunaannya harus konsisten.

Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of has a tradition of storytelling. No doubt stories have touched your life, too, from bedtime stories you may have heard as a child to news stories you see on TV or read in a newspaper. We might even say that a major goal of living is to created the story of our own lives, a story we hope to take pleasure and pride in telling.

Love is the language that we all share at a global level, the emotion that motivates our whole lives. For me, music is more my preferred source of consolation and inner richness. It's a tool for opening up our hearts and minds, helping us to overcome difficulties and instilling trust and positivity.

I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language.

Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my card?" " Peng you ," I say. " Peng you ," she says, only instead of pung yo , it sounds like penguin . "Shee shee for being my penguin," she says.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.