Quotes of: Language Keyword

Another grave limitation of language is that it cannot, like music or gesture, do more than one thing at once. However the words in a great poet's phrase interinanimate one another and strike the mind as a quasi-instantaneous chord, yet, strictly spe...

Studies in Words

Now (obviously) a sentence’s truth—even when we hold the sentence’s meaning fixed—depends on which world we are considering. “Brown is Prime Minister” is true in the actual world but, since Brown need not have been Prime Minister, there a...

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious wor...

The Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French, English Language Edition), Vocal Score

After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We are in the very beginning stages of what might take years or even decades of transition. The human race i...

The Unknown Mother: A Magical Walk with the Goddess of Sound

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and ...

A Wild Sheep Chase

There is a single truth, it filters through different stories and languages because people come from different cultures and speak different languages. And this truth has manifested itself through millennia, in multiple ways. Different people belong t...

C. JoyBell C.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own min...

Christopher Hitchens

The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses ‘the means at hand,’ that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for wh...

Jacques Derrida

It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make it literally unreal--with pictures of its satisfactio...

Adam Phillips

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.

Coma House

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Crome Yellow

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Dune Messiah

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Dictation: A Quartet

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

Daytripper

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.

The Elements of Content Strategy

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together

First Step 2 Forever

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Four Quartets

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

Finnikin of the Rock