L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Language is filled
with words for deprivation
images so familiar
it is hard to crack language open
into that other country
the country of being.”
Source: Unremembered country: poems
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
“Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.”
“Language is Highway to A Culture
(Diary of A Polyglot Neuroscientist, S.2392)
Languages are not ornaments,
languages are organs,
channeling spirit from the heart.
Language is highway to a culture,
language requires a vessel, not translator.
Soon earbuds will feature instant translation,
which will render crosscultural conversation seamless,
but at the same time, lifeless, hollow and cold.
Until we develop the brain technology
to communicate meaning telepathically
without talking, no amount of translation
can carry the warmth, nuances and
sentiment of a lived language.
As added perk, speaking more than one language
delays age-related cognitive decline.
Therefore no matter how you look at it,
one broken second language is far more
valuable than all the mass-produced subtitles.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
Source: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”
Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?
“Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.”
“Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.”
“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”
“Language is just an over-glorified byproduct, real conversation happens between the pauses.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”
“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.”
Source: Everything Beautiful Began After
“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.”
“Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.”
“Language is magic, culture is magic,
I wield that magic in my breath.
My brain is a symphony of portals,
Each transcending past exclusivity,
into distinct linguocultural awareness.”
“Language is magic,
I wield that magic in my breath.
My brain is a symphony of portals,
each transcending past exclusivity,
into distinct linguocultural awareness.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.”
“language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.”
“Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.”
Source: The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
“Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.”
“Language is memory and metaphor.”
Source: Parthian Words
“Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”
Source: The Mother Tongue
“Language is much closer to film than painting is.”
Source: Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be read, and, in the largest sense, what it means. It is essential to remember that characters have a music as well, a pitch and tempo, just as real people do. To make them believable, you must always be aware of what they would or would not say, where stresses would or would not fall.”
Source: When I Was A Child I Read Books
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot.”
“Language is neither merely the field of expression, nor merely the means of expression, nor merely the two jointly. Thought and poesy never just use language to express themselves with its help; rather, thought and poesy are in themselves the originary, the essential, and therefore also the final speech that language speaks through the mouth of man.”
Source: What is called thinking?
“Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.”
“Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.”
“language is never neutral”
“Language is never sufficient. There is not enough of it to make a true mirror of living. In this way, the soothing or afflictive effect of the stories we tell is not in whether we select the right words but in our proximity to what the right words might be. This is not some abstraction, but a very real expression of power–the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.”
“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground”
“Language is not just a tool; it's a bridge that connects hearts, minds, and the boundless realms of inspiration.”
“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement”
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.”
Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics
“Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.”
“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”
“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.”
“Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support, you describe your life in negative terms you will find that this will reinforce your mind's negative emotions and make you unhappy and even more susceptible to feeling unhappy in the future. By simply doing the reverse and focusing on why you are lucky and grateful things are not worse, you will strengthen and increase your mind's positive emotions and make yourself happy and even more likely to feel happy in the future.”
“Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.”
Source: Life and letters
“Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.”
“Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
“Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.”
“Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.”
Source: Parthian Words
“Language is one way of determining relationships among American Indian nations. The Missouria are of the Siouan-language family, speaking a dialect known as the Chiwere. Other tribes speaking this dialect were the Ho Chunk (Winnebago), the Wahtohtana (Otoe, and the Baxoje (Ioway). William Clark said these tribes spoke the same language and correctly surmised they were "once one great nation.”
Source: The People of the River's Mouth: In Search of the Missouria Indians (Missouri Heritage Readers)