Quotes by Language After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language. Joshua Homme languagewritinghelping 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 Joy Harjo languagespiritualhands Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place. Joy Williams wandererslanguagetoday The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. Juan Goytisolo innocencelanguageinspiration The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul. Joseph Campbell folktaleslanguagesoul One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare. Judi Dench foolbenefitslanguage Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages. Judith Lynne Hanna dialectlanguagedance Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process. Joyce Carol Oates executionlanguageart Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it. Joyce Carol Oates paradoxlanguageknows So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. Judy Chicago sisterhoodlanguageeducation The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing. Judith Butler effortviolencelanguage It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests. Judith Butler democracyinterestlanguage Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie? Joyce Carol Oates caseslanguagelying I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous J.R. Ward vishoussixteenlanguage The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. Judy Woodruff contentiousenglish-languagelanguage Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. Julia Penelope languagemenworld Words are containers for power Joyce Meyer speechlanguagepower It is by metaphor that language grows. Julian Jaynes metaphorgrowslanguage For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious. Julian Jaynes consciousnessseriouslanguage 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 Julian Barnes gestureslanguagelooks«5556575859606162636465»
