{"quotes":[{"text":"We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["heaven","interpretsuzy-kassem","language","linguistics","meaning","peace","power-of-words","tones","understanding","war","words"],"id":3438,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? When we try to describe one person to another or to a group, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job -- no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.","author":"Cleanth Brooks","tags":["language","linguistics","southern"],"id":5643,"author_id":"Cleanth+Brooks"},{"text":"Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.","author":"Ferdinand de Saussure","tags":["linguistics","philosophy","speech"],"id":8050,"author_id":"Ferdinand+de+Saussure"},{"text":"The sage does not become trapped in semantics, does not mistake map for territory, but rather 'opens things up to the light of Heaven' by flowing with the words, by playing with the words. Once attuned to this flow, the sage need make no special effort to 'illumine,' for language does it by itself, spontaneously. Language spills over.","author":"Hakim Bey","tags":["chaos","daoism","language","linguistics","taoism"],"id":12054,"author_id":"Hakim+Bey"},{"text":"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["awareness","language","life","linguistics","speech"],"id":22529,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.","author":"Steven Pinker","tags":["language","linguistics"],"id":34134,"author_id":"Steven+Pinker"},{"text":"Language is a social art.","author":"Willard Van Orman Quine","tags":["analytical-philosophy","art","language","linguistics","philosophy","society","sociology"],"id":34735,"author_id":"Willard+Van+Orman+Quine"},{"text":"To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.","author":"Nataly Kelly","tags":["interpreting","language","linguistics","translation"],"id":40776,"author_id":"Nataly+Kelly"},{"text":"In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["creating-new-things","creation","creations","defined","defined","defined","defining","definition","definitions","description","descriptions","dictionary","dictionary-definitions","dictionary-meanings","dictionary","epigrams","expression","expression","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","language","languages","languages-and-culture","linguistics","meaning","meanings","meanings-of-things","new-word","new-words","proverbs","quips","quotable","quotable","quotations","quote","quotes","quotography","quotology","sayings","words","words-have-power","words-to-inspire-you","words-to-live-by","words-to-ponder"],"id":43409,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable 'Chilean sea bass.","author":"Hal Herzog","tags":["eating-animals","food","foodie","language","linguistics","names"],"id":45261,"author_id":"Hal+Herzog"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":86,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}