Language Quotes - page 13

He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity. (Khaled Hosseini)
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. View quote
Emil Cioran
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. View quote
Emil Cioran
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. View quote
Carl Sandburg
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. View quote
Frantz Fanon
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. (Marshall McLuhan)
The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note... to generate a new musical phrase. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation." View quote
Paul Valéry
The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary therefore that signs be instituted. There is no market or exchange without language. The first instrument of all commerce is language. View quote
Paul Valéry
You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. View quote
Anatoly Chubais
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility. View quote
Robert Graves
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language. View quote
Robert Fripp
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. View quote
Alan Moore
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. (William Irwin Thompson)
We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in. View quote
William Saroyan
If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language. View quote
William Saroyan
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. View quote
Timothy Leary
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands. View quote
Pieter Willem Botha