Quotes About Language

French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has found that the less accurate, "there or thereabouts" bits of math processing uses visual and spatial brain areas, whereas the exact stuff requires the same areas as language processing.2 So to some extent, being a words person and a numbers person are kind of the same thing.

The English word psyche, meaning "soul" or "mind," comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little

Put it into words—you can't feel words. I think that if I could give a name to what I feel it would go away. Find the word that describes the feeling and say it over and over until it's merely a sound.

metaphor be with you!—

Not ugly for someone her age, but what she's doing with those numbers and letters seem unholy.

Three Russian Ideas: Russian Word, Russian Space, and their meeting ground in the human face

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.

Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense.

We live and breathe words.

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

Now Juan could not understand a word, Being no Grecian; but he had an ear, And her voice was the warble of a bird, ... So soft, so sweet, so delicately clear, That finer, simpler music ne'er was heard; The sort of sound we echo with a tear, Without knowing why - an overpowering tone, Whence Melody descends as from a throne.

strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn.

Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.

Words are women, deeds are men.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.