He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him..

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones..

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of….

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his ….

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer..

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations..

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses..

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that pa….

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it..

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears..

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it..

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids..

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes..

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language..

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India..

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language..

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brou….

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it..

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the b….

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language..