Quotes About Language

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

The style is the thought itself.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Cercando la parola si trovano i pensieri.

No doubt one of the reasons human cognition is so powerful is because we have language in our brains, which exponentially increases the ability to categorize information, to chunk. A whole culture, for instance, can be implied by a name.

In the last chapter, I discussed how other animals might have domain-specific forms of consciousness, and in the case of nonhuman primates, domain-independent forms of nonverbal consciousness, but how only humans have verbal working memory, and thus language-based consciousness and the mental frills that language makes possible.

Language is not just a system for talking and reading. Talking and reading reflect the cognitive elaborations brought into the brain by language.

Outside, they could hear the horse neighing angrily. The Doctor looked shocked. 'Language!

Therefore, the valuable tools of a remote viewer or any psychic are being able to quiet the conscious (ego) mind, learning never to demand a conclusion, intensely focusing on nothing specific, being absolutely neutral towards a target, being able to establish a fertile ground for conscious/subconscious exchange, and developing a common language between the physical and non-physical realities.

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb

Good that you are here, as Peter and I couldn't find our asses with both hands." Pico had never heard such an expression, and stopped just short of offering assistance.

The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.

The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the doubtful sources of his information and the seemingly bottomless history and darkness out of which the dishes of New York emerge, the deeper grew my suspicion that his work finally consisted of minting or perpetuating and in any event circulating misconceptions about his subject and in this way adding to the endless perplexity of the world.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Oggi tutti parlano la stessa, falsa lingua, e tutte le cose hanno le stesse ma false denominazioni.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

People say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

Neki možda smatraju da je prethodnu re?enicu trebalo završiti uzvi?nikom, ali ja (koji ovo pišem) mislim da je upotreba uzvi?nika znak slabosti. Uzvi?nik se možda može upotrebiti dva puta u životu, ako se piše svaki dan. Ako se ne piše svaki dan, uzvi?nik se u odre?enim slu?ajevima može upotrebiti jednom. Ljude koji nekriti?no koriste uzvi?nik treba internirati i deportovati - barem na neko vreme.