Quotes About Function Of Language

#1. Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.

Zadie Smith

#2. Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

#3. Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Kenneth Burke

#4. Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language - a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer's decisions.

Noy Holland

#5. What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Mark Twain

#6. Language is a function not only of neurons, not only of "I," but of the meeting of cell and cosmos: the brash Caw of a disembodied intelligence at large in the universe, perhaps even the "voice" of primordial matter. You can hear it in wild turkeys at dawn.

Richard Grossinger

#7. Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#8. The official government radio station was still broadcasting that the New York Power Authority would have power back up to Con Edison and lower Manhattan

Matthew Mather

#9. There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

#10. Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.

M. Fethullah Gulen

#11. Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Walter Benjamin

#12. I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

Peyton J Glenn

#13. Will you stay in Germany?'
'No. Somewhere different.'
'Like where?'
'Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.

Audrey Magee

#14. America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

Bob Hope

#15. Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

Frances Beinecke

#16. War makes rattling good history.

Thomas Hardy

#17. The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

Ron Silliman

#18. The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Jorie Graham

#19. By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

William Carlos Williams

#20. Eva," she said exasperated. "You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats!"
Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in "Reflected in You

Sylvia Day

#21. Scala is also a functional language in the sense that every function is a value and because every value is an object so ultimately every function is an object.

Anonymous

#22. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

#23. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

John Connolly

#24. Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Wally Amos

#25. When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Phil Klay

#26. Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).

Oliver Sacks