I should think a dead language would be rather boring…

“I am amazed at how being with him changes everything for me, socially speaking.”

— Cynthia Hand

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

— Alan Rudolph

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language…

— Anonymous

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”

— Sierra DeMulder

“Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop…

— Christopher Moore

Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a…

— Jean Dubuffet

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still…

— Henry David Thoreau

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -…

— Rita Mae Brown

“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist…

— Toni Morrison

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

— Jerry Scott

“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”

— David Kyuman Kim

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt