Quotes About Language

Words will change your future

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?"—Zarost

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

But could words bethe end of me?

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

The Owl goes who, who, the Dove goes coo, coo, humans go you! You!

Verbalizing has a soothing effect on the nervous systems of children. (Adults, too.)

That doesn't last. By their first birthday, Kuhl found, babies can no longer distinguish between the sounds of every language on the planet. They can distinguish only between those to which they have been exposed in the past six months.

With words, with language, we could extract a great deal of knowledge about our living situation without always having to experience its harsh lessons directly.

For example, from nouns to verbs to aspects of grammar, we each store language in different areas, recruiting different regions for different components.

One study hints that it could, though more work needs to be done. Kids with normal hearing took an American Sign Language class for nine months, in the first grade, then were administered a series of cognitive tests. Their attentional focus, spatial abilities, memory, and visual discrimination scores improved dramatically—by as much as 50 percent—compared with controls who had no formal instruction.

We now know that infants do not gain a more sophisticated vocabulary until their fine-motor finger control improves.

At birth, your baby can distinguish between the sounds of every language that has ever been invented. Professor Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington, discovered this phenomenon. She calls kids at this age "citizens of the world." Chomsky puts it this way: We are not born with the capacity to speak a specific language. We are born with the capacity to speak any language.

One claims that religious statements aren't referential at all, but purely expressive in nature; they communicate nothing but the emotional state of the person making them.