Best normal & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?”

Ifs Language Term Painting Normal Paint Definitions Why Not Canvas

Author:John Baldessari

“Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.”

Language Normal Characteristics Geek

Author:Steve Wozniak

“For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.”

World Mind Would Be Language Vision Normal Sight Aliens Visuals Meaningless Tangible Berkeley

Author:David Berman

“A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.”

Together Lying Language Emotion Records Normal Mood

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding.”

People Men Should Language Understanding Enemy Normal Understood Motive Ulterior Motive Closed Minded

Author:John Fairclough

“When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."”

Ifs Trying Looks Home Language Hair Normal Blue Contact Whiteness Bleaching

Author:Vivek Shraya

“I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.”

People Ifs Mean Use Fall Language Water Numbers Situation Havens Normal Capacity Claims Sentences Plenty Speakers Finite Recursion Finite Number

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.”

Thinking Language Sound Rich Terrible Normal Filling Terrible Things Perfectly Normal Somali

Author:Warsan Shire

“Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.”

Wells Play Used Reading Language Normal Accepted Eras Sentiments Huckleberry Shakespeare Play

Author:Jane Smiley

“In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.”

World Night Language Existence This World Normal Stones Clouds Usual

Book:Poems New and Collected

Source: Poems New and Collected

“As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.”

Language Nations Communication Normal Noise Advertising Printed Advertising Agencies Idiom Blather

Book:The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

“Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.”

Law Political Individual Language Social Special Normal Institutions Unity Sentences Ignorant Supposed To Be Submission Prerequisites

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.”

People Trying Use Speak Language Dangerous Normal Conscious Reactions Symbols Unconscious Our Society

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”

Giving Language Drink Giving Up Normal

Book:The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

“It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.”

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

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