Quotes about Language

Now, perhaps, we are in a better position to understand the abyss separating Sabina and Franz: he listened eagerly to the story of her life and she was equally eager to hear the story of his, but although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

The invention of printing formerly enabled people to understand one another. In the era of universal graphomania, the writing of books has an opposite meaning: everyone surrounded by his own words as by a wall of mirrors, which allows no voice to filter in from the outside.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation. A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with.

Resolve today to think and talk only about the things you want in life and refuse to talk about the things you don't want.