Quotes About Language

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.