Quotes by Language Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. Ferdinand de Saussure obscurelanguageviews In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs. Ferdinand de Saussure languagestudywould-be A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. Ferdinand de Saussure organsindividuallanguage Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force. Ferdinand de Saussure initiativeconservativelanguage Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Ferdinand de Saussure grammarlanguagestudy Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. Ferdinand de Saussure psychologylanguagesocial It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. Ferdinand de Saussure abledifferentlanguage Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. Ferdinand de Saussure languagegoes-onideas The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences. Ferdinand de Saussure differenceslanguagespecial The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. Ferdinand de Saussure taskslanguagestudy Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure brancheslanguagelaw When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you Fernando Lamas languagespeakmean Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same! Fernando J. Corbato lineslanguagenumbers 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. Fisher Ames admirerlanguagepurity It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. Frances Mayes languageresponsibilitytravel Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Frances Hodgson Burnett chaoslanguageworld I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. Frances Mayes languagefieldsdiscovery those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either. Fran Lebowitz stylelanguageuse My homeland is the portuguese language. Fernando Pessoa portuguesehomelandlanguage The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places. Francis Arinze never-changecatholiclanguage«2930313233343536373839»
