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Language Quotes (page 2)

Ambrose Bierce quote: "LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents..."
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. Ambrose Bierce
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Language is fossil Poetry."
Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bertrand Russell quote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make..."
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it. Bertrand Russell
Edward Sapir quote: "Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a..."
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Edward Sapir
Carlos Fuentes quote: "Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is..."
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. Carlos Fuentes
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in the unresolved or partially resolved tension of disparates. A word fixed or a statement isolated without any decorative or ‘cubist’ visual format, becomes a perception of similarity in dissimilars—in short a paradox. Robert Smithson
Roland Barthes quote: "...language is never innocent."
...language is never innocent. Roland Barthes
Salman Rushdie quote: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to..."
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. Salman Rushdie
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies"
Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies Kim Stanley Robinson
Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable. Toni Morrison
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Language disguises thought."
Language disguises thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise. Jeanette Winterson
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story? to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. Stephen King
Dan Brown quote: "Language can be very adept at hiding the truth."
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth. Dan Brown
Paulo Freire quote: "language is never neutral"
language is never neutral Paulo Freire

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