Quotes About Language

Sakaki and Osaka lying on towels at the beach) ... Osaka: You know them Hemmorrhoids... Sakaki: ...Eh? =-O Osaka: Some folks call 'em "Hemorrhoids", but others call 'em "Roids". Why does the one not have an "H" in it? Which one's right? Sakaki: ...... Osaka: Would it be under "H" or "R" in the dictionary? Sakaki: ...I don't know. =/

Any writer, in whatever form, must first pass through the stage of being a reader. It is unimaginable that someone could become a writer without first being a reader. Only a daydreamer who had fallen into an unhealthy idealism could exoticize a writer in this way. Such misperception is similar to believing that thought is possible without language.

politicized character of Hindutva-watching leads to unabashed manipulations of the semantics of established terminology.

The kind of language I am using today was once natured by the environment I lived in when I was still a growing toddler.

So apparently all homeschooled kids spoke like pretentious liberal arts college students.

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.

But sometimes there is absolutely nothing like a damn, shit, or hell to get your point across

Poetry is language that speaks to our hearts. And I'm using the biblical word heart. I think the closest equivalent to that in 21st-century language is our imaginations. The heart, in biblical physiology, is the center of our emotions, but also of our intellect. Those two things cannot be separated. And poetic language is precise. It is detailed, it's realistic, but it is not the discursive language of mere fact.

This is antiseptic language, which puts our human dramas in political and economic boxes and holds us at arm's length from the heart of the matter. Still, I feel more and more of us willingly seeing, choosing to care about the heart of the matter, holding the question of love,

In fiction, the language and the senses it evokes are important, whereas in technical writing, the content, and the information it conveys, are important.

God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Every letter in the alphabet in that sentence.

I remember once over lunch, out of the blue my guru told me about the question posed by James Joyce: "When he and his daughter spoke the same language and said similar things, why did he become famous and yet his daughter was diagnosed schizophrenic?" Based on Dr. Carl Jung consultation of James Joyce & daughter Lucia.

In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.

It's odd that in our culture we assume that everyone can (and should) learn basic language skills although only a small percentage will become authors. We also assume that everyone can learn math while only a few will become mathematicians. However, we assume that drawing requires some special talent possessed by only a few and the rest need not try.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

It takes a little practice, I think, for most females." "No, Jess, I'm a woman," she said. "Females are medical." He laughed. "So right, woman." "Don't forget it.

As with language, culture offers to the individual a horizon of latent possibilities—a flexible and invisible cage in which he can exercise his own conditional liberty.

L'altra parola, che ritorna sempre nei discorsi è crai, il cras latino, domani. Tutto quello che si aspetta, che deve arrivare, che deve essere fatto o mutato, è crai. Ma crai significa mai.

Was this classical form the reminiscence of an ancient art, descended to a popular level, or was it an original and spontaneous re-creation in a language natural to this land, where the whole of life is a tragedy without a stage?

Io lo so che parlo perché parlo," (I know I am talking because I'm talking.)

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

To ask oneself in general what exists or what is real means only to ask how would you like to use a verb and an adjective; it's a grammatical question, not a question about nature. Nature, for its part, is what it is, and we discover it very gradually. If our grammar and our intuition do not readily adapt to what we discover, well, too bad. We must seek to adapt them.