Language Quotes

“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.”

“Language is generated by the intellect and generates intellect.”

“We cannot understand a thing until we can express it.”

“The paradigm for all texts consists of a figure (or a system of figures) and its deconstruction.”

“Language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and the other. The word in language is half someone else's.”

“The sound of a word is at least as important as its meaning.”

“The word 'paradise' comes from a Persian word meaning 'walled garden'.”

“Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.”

“I was trying to find a language for the body that is not the language of the desiring machine.”

“Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.”

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.”

“Hypercorrection is the over-application of a perceived rule of grammar or pronunciation in an attempt to appear more formal or educated.”

“A programming language is a tool that has a profound influence on our thinking habits.”

“We are born into a world of words.”

“No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”

“A contraction's a word made by shortening and combining two words.”

“Language is the only homeland.”

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialized linguistic structures.”

“The letters in a text are not chosen independently. For example, q is virtually always followed by u.”