Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core. Love was the only language used; You and I were the only characters.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.
