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

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
Moliere

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

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

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Jurgen Habermas

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky

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

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
Ernst Haas

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud

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

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
Harrison Ford

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne