Language Quotes - Page 36

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

In English every word can be verbed.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

Language is a social art.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Every language has its own music.

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.