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I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.
— Ashlan Thomas
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
— Marshall McLuhan
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
— Toni Morrison
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
— Timothy Noah
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.
— David Mitchell
This is every writer's nightmarethe sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us ... — Dan Simmons
Marrakesh is translated from the words Mur N'Akush in the Berber language meaning "Land of God.
— Jake Tour
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
— Studs Terkel
It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way.
— David Foster Wallace
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
— Kenneth L. Pike
Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.
— Thea Van Diepen
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
— William Whewell
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
— Mason Cooley
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
— Ellen Goodman
Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.
— Ken Liu
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
— Ezra Pound
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.
— Alison Bechdel
Literature is language charged with meaning
— Ezra Pound
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
— Ernest L. Boyer
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
— Malcolm De Chazal
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.
— Stanley Kunitz
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black - in itself.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
— Shannon Phillips
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.
— Michael Callahan
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
— Mary Balogh
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
— Patricia A. McKillip
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.
— Marty Rubin
Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.
— James Russell Lowell
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?
— Kate Atkinson
Who never tried to alter my language, but instead learned to translate the meaning behind my silence.
— Claire Contreras
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
— Terence McKenna
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
— Saint Augustine
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
— Natasha Tsakos
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
— Akshay Vasu
Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
