Because Quote by Aimee Mullins

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible…

— Gertrude Stein

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

— Gunnar Myrdal

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”

— Lauren Kate

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine