#language

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#intuitively #language #most #people #understand

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#language #words #experience

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation

No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ↗

— Aubrey Beardsley

#language #polite #rude #writers

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#themselves #writers

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#believe #building #captured #commandment #could

The one overall structure in my plays is language. ↗

— Edward Bond

#overall #plays #structure

In general, every country has the language it deserves. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deserves #every #general #language

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#insignificance #language #lesson #life #most

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#corporate #corporate interests #fighting #framework #i