She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.
Orson Scott CardEvery sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri HustvedtTags: language illness sickness
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
Fernando PessoaMusic is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
Keith RichardsTags: music language emotions bones the-rolling-stones keith-richards
He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.
Don DeLilloWhy only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together
Luce IrigarayTags: language female-sexuality
He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.
Kelley ArmstrongTags: language funny spanish cool
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
Dan QuayleTags: politics humour language
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
George OrwellTags: language totalitarianism 1984 socialism george-orwell
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: science language physics maths
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