#language

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#grammar #language #languages #letter #literacy

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something. Everything seemed so different, so unreal. There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight. There seemed no reason why these things should occupy the space, instead of leaving it empty. His friends talked to him: he heard the sounds, and he answered. But why there should be the noise of speech he could not understand. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#drinking #isolation #language #meaninglessness #suicide

The language of the heart Is the only language That everybody can understand. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#language #inspirational

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. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #grammar #individuality #language #politics

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#teaching #freedom

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ↗

— William Golding

#fits #language #like #over

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

#another #cannot #i #know #language

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comedy #even #friendly #language #least

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#being #born #handicap #i #key

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#doing #i #i see #kids #language