Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know…

I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and spoke only…

— Claire Saffitz

“But I never forgot Shosha. I dreamed of her at night. In my dreams she was both dead and alive. I played with her…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

— David Quammen

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

— Jane Rule

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move…

— Pat Mora

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

— Denis Dutton

“Nothing like a language barrier to make people leave you alone.”

— Andy Weir

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

— Joseph Fiennes

“A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like…

— Rowan Moore

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

— Ben Kingsley

“The French are like a coin with a different face on either side of it (every coin has two faces), for every action there…

— C. JoyBell C

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

— Ani DiFranco

“Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.”

— Uma Krishnaswami

“She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left her alone.”

— Meredith Miller

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser