At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thou...
Modern nationalism swept Europe alongside the flourishing of industrialisation. Across the continent, poets and intellectuals cultivated and often heavily modified vernacular languages to be bearers of 19th century modernity. These guardians of langu...
Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a...
Here’s the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes—especially the most verboten and destructive ones—the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whet...
I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as...
Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.
High thoughts must have high language.
Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
A book, child. A book just for you, in a lost language.
Love is the language that transcends all others.
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
