Quotes by Language I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well. Dawn Lundy Martin languagelisteningthinking My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us. David Wong moralitylanguagepeople If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. Dean Falk evolutionlanguagebrain In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE. Debbie Allen languageprayingworld We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. Debbie Harry languagemadepeople Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. Deborah Kass generationslanguageway We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has Deborah Tannen realizinglanguagelooks For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. Deborah Tannen connectionslanguageway The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head. Deena Metzger politicallanguageworld Eighty percent of language lies to us. Deena Metzger percentlanguagelying My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. Deb Caletti foreign-languagelanguagespeak Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information. Dee Hock expansioninformationlanguage Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy. Deepak Chopra languagejoyreality One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language. Denise Levertov languagewritingworld Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words. Dejan Stojanovic language I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic. Dennis Lehane levelslanguagebelieve Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter metaphorlanguage A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do Dennis Ritchie computersimplicitylanguage I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax. Dennis Ritchie syntaxuncertainlanguage Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot music-islanguageliterature«1920212223242526272829»
