Language Quotes - Page 29

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

Translation is at best an echo.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

Donald Trump doesn't have significant tells when he's lying because truth and lies to him are kind of homogenized. He's such a pro at it that you don't see a lot of divergence in his body language when he's lying or telling the truth. It's just constant bulls**t. He's probably a very good bluffer.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.