Quotes About Language

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Life is our dictionary.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

To change your language you must change your life.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

The words we use to surround death are bizarre. Like we're hiding something.

I don't say anything because I used to love words. I loved them and was good at arranging them. Because of this, I felt protective of all the best ones. But now all of them, good and bad, frustrate me.

The experience of time translates itself into language, and language translates itself into distance, which translates itself into longing, which is the realization of time. (…) how sad and strange that I, Jenny Boully, should be the sign of a signifier or the signifier of a sign, moreover, the sign of a signifier searching for the signifies.

I only said I loved you in my poetry.

With dreaming, we speak differently. We use the past tense. Dreams are about the past, but we want them to be about the present, the future. That is, we will make them mean something.

That didn't sound much like a date, Rosie thought. Useful wasn't a word you used about a date. It was a word you used about a stapler.

Poetry is good for people who are in strange lands," said Marek. "Yes

To understand what a person means or says, it's basically necessary to already know what that person means or is saying.

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