Quotes About Language

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

By words the mind is winged.

Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

High thoughts must have high language.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

Once dialogue had come in, Nature herself discovered the appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial.

Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.

A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Natural language processing (NLP) research aims to enable computers to interpret and react to human languages.

Spell < tear=dropps > with a dubble < p > at the end, and use a < = > to join the words -- I find it looks much more melancholy; ergo, more correct -:

It's quite clear : an outsider can , on principle, only value foreign literature that translates well; the truly great artists of language and the fecund experimenters are inaccessible to him; are usually unknown to him in fact !

evil< is also just another word for >toilet<

Im ganzen Buch kommt nicht einmal das Wort Corned Beef vor.

It occurred to me that his words had a shadow. Or teeth and claws, and blood. Some kind of invisible whip. How words can be a trap, a trick and a net, not for butterflies or birds, or lions! The things that words promise.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

In politics, I claim that progressives, conservatives, and libertarians are like tribes speaking different languages. The language that resonates with one tribe does not connect with the others. As a result, political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead, most political commentary serves to increase polarization. The points that people make do not open the minds of people on the other side. They serve to close the minds of the people on one's own side.

The day is 24 hours; 6 hours we sleep, so you have left 18 hours. So don't ever give me this thing "I'm working 12 hours so I don't have time to exercise and to work out." Or "I don't have time to study another language" and all these kind of things. 18 hours; so utilize the 18 hours, that's what I've always believed in, and I feel like that's the only way you can get ahead.

Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: "Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen." Of: "Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen." Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoord. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoord.

Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.

The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.