Language is memory and metaphor

Quote by Storm Jameson

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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a...

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a...

Hope is a talent like any other.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which...

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which...

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to...

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to...

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself -...

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself -...

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which...

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which...

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly...

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the...

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages....

Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages....

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs,...

We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs,...

Language is the light of the mind

Language is the light of the mind

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of...

Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should...

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...

We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding...