2,489 Quotes About Language

This was not a blowjob; this was fellatio, my friends.

... ta chỉ thật sự biết chắc về những gì do chính ta tạo ra mà thôi! Ta có thể "định nghĩa" cái đồng hồ hay khẩu súng tốt hơn nhiều sơ với hiểu con người hay con ngựa!

We treat ourselves both as objects of language and as speakers of language, both as objects of the symbolism and as symbols in it. And all the difficult paradoxes which go right back to Greek times and reappear in modern mathematics depend essentially on this.

Språket var den enda magin mot döden.

People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate.

Religion is a language, if you can speak it, it's a bridge, if not, then it's a barrier.

The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...

Nommer c'est montrer et [...] montrer c'est changer.

I grew up listening to languages my immigrant parents didn't want to teach me, so I get a regressive pleasure out of feeling my way through sounds to their possible meanings. Not "getting" a word, or a line, or a poem at first read was never an obstacle for me — in fact, it was a seduction.