We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
Bill Hicks

High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
Edith Piaf

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Emmet Fox

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Billy Sunday

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Steve Wozniak

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida