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

My first language is Gaelic.
Enya

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus

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

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal

In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Jorge Luis Borges

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Lynn Abbey

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson

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

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman

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

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."
James Caan

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.
Stephen Sondheim

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
Gustave Flaubert

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

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
Jacques Derrida

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh