Language Quotes

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.

Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.

Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

Lisp isn’t a language, it’s a building material.