2,489 Quotes About Language

Misplaced commas are, egregious.

Jokes about full stops are not funny, period.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Poems are the music of our childhoods

Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

When a note stays unchanged for an eternity, it's unexpected, suggesting either plainchant, willful modernist contrarianism, or bagpipes.