2,489 Quotes About Language

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

correct English is the slang of prigs ...

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

I try for a poetic language that says, "This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

language is never neutral