At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time... →
Benjamin Whorf
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
Elie Wiesel
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Leon Wieseltier
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Marianne Wiggins
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Eugene Wigner
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning... →
Thornton Wilder
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will