"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language"

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own."

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."

"The language of truth is simple."

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

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

Negatively charged people sit on their "buts." Monitor your language. Listen to the way you respond to questions and situations. 

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.

All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.

“Translated into ordinary human language this means that the development of capitalism has arrived at a stage when, although commodity production still “reigns” and continues to be regarded as the basis of economic life, it has in reality been undermined and the bulk of the profits go to the “geniuses” of financial manipulation.” 

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

“A human language is a system of remarkable complexity. To come to know a human language would be an extraordinary achievement for a creature not specifically designed to accomplish this task. A normal child acquires this knowledge on relatively slight exposure and without specific training. He can then quite effortlessly make use of an intricate structure of specific rules and guiding principles to convey his thoughts and feelings to others, arousing in them novel ideas and subtle perceptions and judgments.” 

“Take language, one of the few distinctive human capacities about which much is known. We have very strong reasons to believe that all possible human languages are very similar; a Martian scientist observing humans might conclude that there is just a single language, with minor variants. The reason is that the particular aspect of human nature that underlies the growth of language allows very restricted options. Is this limiting? Of course. Is it liberating? Also of course. It is these very restrictions that make it possible for a rich and intricate system of expression of thought to develop in similar ways on the basis of very rudimentary, scattered, and varied experience.” 

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.” 

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

“In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.” 

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.

“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?”