#lang

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#imagination

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. ↗

— Timothy Ferriss

#language #sports #tarzan #friendship

Imagination is thinking beyond language. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#language #thinking #imagination

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #language #virginia-woolf #writing-philosophy #inspirational

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ↗

— Russell Hoban

#come #down #even #how #language

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#equal #language #unequal #use #wrong

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart. ↗

— Mark Stephens

#inspirational #language #yoga #inspirational

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. ↗

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

#language #poet #poetry #spoken #word

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#pessimism #philosophy #rhetoric #intelligence

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs ↗

— Stephen Fry

#education