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When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of...

Deborah Tannen
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Conrad Hall
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and...

Leonard Mlodinow
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm {opposition}, there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict {the choice of one term against another}, and...

Roland Barthes The Neutral:...
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm {opposition}, there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict {the choice of one term against another}, and all conflict is generative of meaning: to choose one and refuse the other is always a sacrifice made to meaning, to produce meaning, to offer it to be consumed.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked โ€“ Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both {only the techies came in English}.

Manil Suri The City of Devi
I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked โ€“ Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both {only the techies came in English}.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

Billy Collins
If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.

Gustavo Perez Firmat Bilingual Blues
The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Marshall McLuhan
All words, in every language, are metaphors.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression {a form of words} used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience...

Mark Johnson The Body in the...
A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression {a form of words} used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can make sense of. A metaphor, in this "experiential" sense, is a process by which we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another domain of a different kind.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the...

R.N. Prasher
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

William H. Gass
Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Words are immortal - Elinor

Cornelia Funke Inkheart
Words are immortal - Elinor

Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

David Mitchell Black Swan Green
Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come...

Michael Dorris Morning Girl
Names are strange and special gifts. There are names you give to yourself and names you show to the world, names that stay for a short while and names that remain with you forever, names that come from things you do and names that you receive as presents from other people. If your name is true, it is who you are.

I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs - - piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and...

Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea:...
I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs - - piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and chaos of our marvelous language. Words upon words, piled high, toppling over, thoughts popping, correspondence and conversation overflowing.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Frank Herbert Dune Messiah
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on.I do, Alice hastily replied; at least-at least I mean what I say-that's the same thing, you know.Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter....

Lewis Carroll Alice in...

My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow,...

Terry Tempest Williams When Women Were...

Otaku {ใŠใŸ} is also a formal way of saying "you". ใŸ means "house", and with the honorific ใŠ, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a...

Ruth Ozeki A Tale for the...

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find...

Stephen King Hearts in...

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it...

Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical...

, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the power of our expression and our power to communicate. Standardization, the use of worn-out formulas,...

Anais Nin The Novel of the...

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. {Seriously, how could anyone who...

Jodi Picoult House Rules

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of...

When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive.

Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words

In American, when I was young, my parents always seemed to be in mourning for something. Now I understand: it must have been the language.

Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words
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