Language Theories Quotes

#1. Greg had been nearly out the door, on his way next door to Shari's birthday party, when the phone rang.
"Hi, Greg. Why aren't you on your way to my party?" Shari had asked when he'd run to pick up the receiver.
"Because I'm on the phone with you," Greg had replied dryly.

R.L. Stine

#2. My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

Bruno Dumont

#3. But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. It is as ever present as a pulse.

Lisa Wingate

#4. Believe you can,
believe you are eligible,
and try,
because its all gonna be good only when u take a first step to reach the last

Sambalme

#5. The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. I realized that you could formulate theories about human and social phenomena in language and pictures and whatever you wanted on the computer, and you didn't have to go through this straitjacket, adding a lot of numbers.

Herbert A. Simon

#7. Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

Morris Dees

#8. You know sometimes words have two meanings.

Robert Plant

#9. My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

Eliza Coupe

#10. I know who I am, my lady, and what matters and what doesn't. I want to be with you. That's one of the real things that matter. That's worth everything else.

Joey W. Hill

#11. Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both theories explained what had happened plausibly. I resisted, because it felt trite, saying that they weren't as contradictory as they sounded.

China Mieville

#12. We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

Gordon Gee

#13. [deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

Jean Baudrillard

#14. The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body.

Meister Eckhart

#15. Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#16. The existence of both (electron and pebble) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.

Felix Alba-Juez