Quotes About Language

Language is verbalizing the non-verbal. (That's what makes it so complicated.) Holding hands is better than saying "I love you.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said … but did not.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission." "Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said. "Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules—rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.

Sie lernt Wüstenbewohner- // gesten. Arabisch lernt sie auch, aber nach vielen // Mühen gibt sie es wieder auf, denn sie ist // unvergleichlich weniger begabt für Sprachen als fürs // Revolutionieren.

Et, quand vous ne pouvez pas raconter, vous avez l'impression de mourir d'étouffement.

Were it possible that God should now reveal Himself to us as He is, the Being of Whose Nature we can form no conception, I believe that we should remain as ignorant as we are at present, from the want of faculties to receive that revelation: the Divine language might sound in our ears, but it would be as unintelligible as the roar of the thunder-clap, or the moan of the earthquake, or the whisper of the wind to the leaves of the cedar-tree.

If you're like most people, you were pretty surprised by these results. Most of us aren't aware of the wide range of what these words mean to different people. We assume that when we use a term, other people use it in the same way we do and mean the same thing we do.

People didn't even agree on what the terms always and never meant! If you're like most people, you were pretty surprised by these results. Most of us aren't aware of the wide range of what these words mean to different people. We assume that when we use a term, other people use it in the same way we do and mean the same thing we do.

For the decision swear jar, we identify the language and thinking patterns that signal we are veering from our goal of truthseeking. When we find ourselves using certain words or succumbing to the thinking patterns we are trying to avoid because we know they are signs of irrationality, a stop-and-think moment can be created. You can think about this as a way to implement accountability

Todas as imagens irão desaparecer. (...) Vão desperecer todas de uma só vez como aconteceu com milhares de imagens situadas atrás dos rostos dos avós mortos há meio século, dos pais também eles já mortos. (...) Subitamente, desaparecerão milhares de palavras que serviram para nomear as coisa, os rostos das pessoas, as ações e os sentimentos, para pôr ordem no mundo, para fazer bater o coração e humedecer o sexo.

Tout ce qui touche au langage est dans mon souvenir motif de rancœur et de chicanes douloureuses, bien plus que l'argent.

To convey my predicament, I never resorted to descriptive terms or expressions such as "I'm expecting," "pregnant" or "pregnancy." They endorsed a future event that would never materialize. There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of. In my diary I would write, "it" or "that thing," only once "pregnant.

Neither of us had mentioned the word abortion, not even once. This thing had no place in language.

Todo se borrará en un segundo. El diccionario acumulado de la cuna hasta el lecho de muerte se eliminará. Llegará el silencio y no habrá palabras para decirlo. De la boca abierta no saldrá nada. Ni yo ni mí. La lengua seguirá poniendo el mundo en palabras. En las conversaciones en torno a una mesa familiar seremos tan solo un nombre, cada vez más sin rostro, hasta desaparecer en la masa anónima de una generación remota.

Nunca he escrito para que sea bonito o para hacer una frase bella. Lo que yo escojo es la frase justa

Ecrire pour faire advenir un peu de vérité. Mais que cette vérité ne soit pas advenue seulement pour une élite.

ce résumé rend mal compte du rêve Ã¢â'¬â€œ difficulté intense de raconter les rêves, ils résistent toujours au récit Ã¢â'¬â€œ seule la véritable écriture pourrait les rendre).

Ces souvenirs-là sont terribles chaque fois que je pense : il ne viendra plus, il ne dira plus ces mots-là, d'une manière brève, russe.

Se anularán súbitamente los miles de palabras que han servido para nombrar las cosas, las caras de las personas, los actos y los sentimientos, que han ordenado el mundo, que han hecho latir el corazón y humedecer el sexo.

le Kaffeehaus plein d'Allemands, qui doivent y venir à cause du nom

Une autre fois, sa stupéfaction a été sans bornes, de me voir parler anglais avec un auto-stoppeur qu'un client avait pris dans son camion. Que j'aie appris une langue étrangère en classe, sans aller dans le pays, le laissait incrédule.