Language Quotes

"The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "I want to see thirst inside the syllables" "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together" "What's another word for Thesaurus?" "All language is but a poor translation" "All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic." "A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use." "Music connects souls, regardless of borders or languages." "What we speak becomes the house we live in" "Words are loaded pistols." "Language is the house of Being." "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think" "Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words." "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" "Nothing has really happened until it has been described" "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them." "Language is the dress of thought" "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language."