Language Quotes (page 6)

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• may
• manly
• mays

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. Ben Jonson

• thoughts
• thoughtful
• thought

Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson

• stress
• common
• commoners

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. Gregory Bateson

• memories
• memorial
• metaphoric

Language is memory and metaphor. Storm Jameson

• science
• languages
• sciences

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. Willard Van Orman Quine

• art
• artful
• language arts

Language is a social art. Willard Van Orman Quine

• powerful
• power
• languages

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. Roland Barthes

• caring
• cares
• careful

Language cares. Howard Nemerov

• mathematics
• logic
• except

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. Howard Nemerov

• food
• song
• thinking

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. Holly Near

• words
• kids
• death

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what... Jeanette Winterson

• images
• understanding
• drama

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. John Milius

• forest
• thoughts
• wise

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to... Douglas Adams

• pain
• real
• writing

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is... Maya Angelou

• dream
• evening
• languages

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body. Kathy Acker