Essence Quote by Action Bronson

My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and then via…

— Susie Dent

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery

— Mark Amidon

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

— Howard Hodgkin

“The most lasting thing from my linguistics education is SpecGram..”

— Trey Jones

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up…

— Stephen Fry

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie,…

— George du Maurier

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

— Howard Hodgkin

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

— Minna Antrim

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”

— Megan Shepherd

“Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts,…

— Mervyn Peake

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their…

— Richard Bach