Language Quotes - Page 37

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of one day getting married. We didn't dream about having a civil partnership.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.

War is what happens when language fails.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.