872 quotes found
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
“I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth”
“Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. It's a question of using the English lan...”
“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn goodI use it because I have to, but I dont put any trust in it. We never unders...”
“Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely.”
“If I program ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it, Scile said. If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means noth...”
“He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.”
“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.”
“People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communic...”
“A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.”
“Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.”
“Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.”
“'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.”
“Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.”
“Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.”
“Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.”
“Language cares.”
“Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”
“The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.”
