Language Quotes - Page 63

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

Language can do what it can’t say.

I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Color is a language, like music.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.