2,489 Quotes About Language

How do I language a collision arrived at through separation?

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.]

Language is the dress of thoughts.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody understands all the time." "You mean with no homonyms?" said Doc Brenner. Mr. Gross belched again, and held up two fingers to indicate another Boilermaker. "Are you saying that the language a fella speaks can make a fairy of him?" ("Gin Comes In Bottles")

For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.