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Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.
Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.
For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death
It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.
The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.