Language Quotes - page 7

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

For a writer, only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Noam Chomsky

A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of.

Paul Graham

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus the meaning of a word is its use in the language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.

Anne Applebaum

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Mark Strand

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Mark Strand

Language tethers us to the world without it we spin like atoms.

Penelope Lively

Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Reza Aslan

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Russell Hoban

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Stephen Greenblatt

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Toyo Ito

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. (Frank Luntz)

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

Frank Luntz

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Howard Gardner

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Beverly Cleary

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Glenn Close

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