2,489 Quotes About Language

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.