Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon

Language changes very fast.
John M. Smith

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
William Golding

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon Ramsay

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Joyce Carol Oates

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
Jim Jarmusch

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
Jim Jarmusch

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Thornton Wilder

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
Kathy Acker

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
Kathy Acker

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay