872 quotes found
“Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.”
“I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in ...”
“But unfortunately you get no further by merely wishing class-distinctions away. More exactly, it is necessary to wish them away, but your wish has no efficacy unless you grasp what it involves. The...”
“All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain ...”
“Because of language, the thoughts we record today might reach into the future to influence the thinking of people not yet born.”
“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever...”
“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world?”
“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.”
“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”
“As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me, The old world of houses, rooms, trees and streets shimmers, wavers and tears...”
“So avoid using the word very because its lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Dont use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that ende...”
“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”
“Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on...”
“Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”
“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
“the mystic must be steadily told,All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,universal signs, in...”
“The change of language is a change in reality.”
“In reality, love is fluid; its a verb, not a noun.”
“Language and reality are kept strictly apartreality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesnt care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldnt.”
