Quotes by Language Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material. Cole Swensen languagetogetherthinking It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. Coleman Barks languagedreambeautiful Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. Colin Wilson tiredlanguagehands Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right. Colum McCann languageperfectionstories The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language. Conan O'Brien languageoxfordyears The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better. Condoleezza Rice hard-worklanguageculture The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. Confucius virtuelanguageattitude If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. Confucius rectificationlanguagenames If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully. Confucius affairlanguagenames In language clarity is everything. Confucius claritylanguage If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone. Confucius languagedonesaid Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. Confucius languagewritingideas If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. Confucius accomplishedlanguagedeeds Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. Conor Cruise O'Brien ireland-and-the-irishlanguageblood I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work. Conor McPherson actorslanguagewant Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. Conrad Hall possibilityinfinitelanguage In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel Constantin Stanislavski actorslanguagefeels Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan. Cornel West my-familylanguageremember Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this. Criss Jami psychologylanguagetrying At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. Cullen Murphy nextlanguagenumbers«1516171819202122232425»
