Language Quotes

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunr...

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's ...

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of ...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might ...

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatic...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and comm...

Holding the lamb in his arms, Jesus watched the people file past, some coming, some going, some carr...

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that ...

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odys...

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other...

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "...

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by s...

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consci...

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do ...

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figur...

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves An...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it t...

'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it t...

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-...

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as...

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's mor...

For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both wo...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to...

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the senten...

Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhoo...

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some question...

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. Engli...

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert u...

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language dis...

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully ri...

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not...

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., ar...

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...

You all right?" he said again.I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was see...

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes t...

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of...

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning ...

A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you...

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uned...

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did...

Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with ...

Loose and forbear!

The medium is the message.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in t...

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together ag...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have...

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates ...

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurate...