#lang

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. ↗

— Frank Capra

#languages #mathematics #music #other #three

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#language #truth

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#beauty

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. ↗

— John le Carre

#damn #fools #language #learn #most

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. ↗

— David Chalmers

#helps #i #i can #language #probably

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#poetry #slang

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#expression #eye #genius #language #natural

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#being #co-opted #constantly #continually #however

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#ear #had #i #languages #pick