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Linguistic Quotes

Try not to live in a linguistic slum Picture Quote #1

Being exists only as a neurological and linguistic illusion Picture Quote #1

Men don’t need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words Picture Quote #1

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures Picture Quote #1

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood Picture Quote #1

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament Picture Quote #1

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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic Picture Quote #1

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people’s linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions Picture Quote #1

What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation Picture Quote #1

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science Picture Quote #1

It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’sconcerns or the poet’s truthfulness Picture Quote #1

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The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth Picture Quote #1

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it Picture Quote #1

This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood Picture Quote #1

The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo perplexity, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy Picture Quote #1

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism Picture Quote #1

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic Picture Quote #1

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Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity Picture Quote #1

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male Picture Quote #1

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content Picture Quote #1

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism Picture Quote #1

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms Picture Quote #1

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action Picture Quote #1

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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms Picture Quote #1

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That’s when rock n’ roll succeeds, and that’s what virtuosity is all about Picture Quote #1

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award Picture Quote #1

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist Picture Quote #1

What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves Picture Quote #1

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president Picture Quote #1

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Try not to live in a linguistic slum (Linguistic Quotes) Being exists only as a neurological and linguistic illusion (Linguistic Quotes) Men don’t need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words (Linguistic Quotes) Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures (Linguistic Quotes) Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood (Linguistic Quotes) Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament (Linguistic Quotes) Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic (Linguistic Quotes) Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people’s linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions (Linguistic Quotes) What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage (Linguistic Quotes) Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation (Linguistic Quotes) I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science (Linguistic Quotes) It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem’sconcerns or the poet’s truthfulness (Linguistic Quotes) The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth (Linguistic Quotes) Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it (Linguistic Quotes) This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood (Linguistic Quotes) The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo perplexity, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy (Linguistic Quotes) I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism (Linguistic Quotes) I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic (Linguistic Quotes) Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity (Linguistic Quotes) Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male (Linguistic Quotes) The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content (Linguistic Quotes) What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism (Linguistic Quotes) Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms (Linguistic Quotes) By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action (Linguistic Quotes) Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. (Linguistic Quotes) Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That’s when rock n’ roll succeeds, and that’s what virtuosity is all about. (Linguistic Quotes) Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. (Linguistic Quotes) In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. (Linguistic Quotes) What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves (Linguistic Quotes) If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president (Linguistic Quotes)

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