Best elements & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.”

“Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of two worlds, say, engineering and business, you can bring them together in a way that will a) introduce hot ideas to each other, so they can have idea sex and make idea babies that no one has seen before and b) create a competitive advantage because you can move between worlds, speak both languages, connect the tribes, mash the elements to spark fresh creative insight until you wake up with the epiphany that changes your life.”

“The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood.”

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

Reason Language Elements Negative Organization Importance Critical Vehicle Discourse Rationality Transcendent Unified Coordination Subordination

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.”

Able Language Degrees Elements Chemistry Chemicals Transformed Employed Nomenclature

Author:Antoine Lavoisier

“Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.”

Firsts Religion Language Sacrifice Elements God Love Resolve Theological

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.”

Body Language Fashion Kissing Elements Clothes Labor Exciting Hug Belts Erotic Jersey Plunge

Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.”

“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.”

Wells May Art Form Poetry Language Expression Involved Elements Features Analysis Poetic Conventional Iconic

Author:Yuri Lotman

“From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.”

Form Language Natural Written Elements Infinite Sentences Length Finite Linguistics

Book:Syntactic Structures

Source: Syntactic Structures

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

Way May Whole Language Term Natural Simple Identity Elements Various Tricks Data Native Bags Compatible Native Language

Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine

“words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.”

Needs Hate Individual Language Interest Powerful Destiny Elements Ambition Vanity Empires Engines Fifth Love Hate Fifth Element

Book:Francesca Carrara

Source: Francesca Carrara

“The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.”

Done Language Elements Standards Universal Function Mathematics Foundation Categories Construction

Book:Mathematics, form and function

Source: Mathematics, form and function

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.”

Language Common Elements Obvious Binding Common Language

Author:Michael Howard

“There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People”

People Mean Use Film Language Strong Written Materials Elements Interviews Controlled Very Strong Spontaneous Documentaries

Author:Errol Morris

“I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.”

World Looks I Can Stories Language Enjoy Elements Backgrounds Comic Dirty Rapport Sleazy

Author:Jack Kirby

“The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).”

Way Language Elements Sentences Grammar

Author:Larry Trask

“The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.”

People Way Book Language Social Deals Class Color Broken Elements Incredibles Connected Capture Purple Social Class Vernacular Broken English

Author:Matt de la Pena

“I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!”

Giving Mind Bigs Language Lines Space White Rooms Half Elements Breathe Crafts Dense Devotee White Space Couplets Always On My Mind

Author:Anna Journey

“I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.”

Has Beens Character Dream Would Be Able Speak Language Roles Study Elements Accents Definite Speaks French

Author:Sundra Oakley

“Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.”

“It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the sociopolitical conditions that existed at the time, but there's no scenario I can think of that suggests how a sudden change in these conditions could have led to the emergence of language.”

Thinking Knows Littles I Can Courses Language Conditions Keys Elements Leap Scenarios Emergence Sudden Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.”

People World Way Wells Different Feelings Speak Language Sound Common Elements Verbs Adjectives Nouns Hermits Different Languages Pronouns Adverbs Not Feeling Well Adjectives And Adverbs

Author:Maya Angelou

“I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.”

Should Believe Character Language I Believe Novel Development Elements Should Have Metaphor Memoir Dialogue Narrative Character Development

Author:Danielle Trussoni

“There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.”

“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.”

Writing Made Language Heard Walking Elements Narrative

Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.”

Writing Firsts Real Form Language Term Fiction Elements Originals Narrative Operations Significance Distribution Revealing Explicit Perversion Enigmatic Contamination

Author:Brion Gysin

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