The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
Werner Heisenberg

I want a language that speaks the truth.
Studs Terkel

War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere

Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard

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

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

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Deborah Tannen

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
John le Carre

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele