Language Quote by Ali Smith

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and…

— Jarod Kintz

“Language is everything, since it is the voice of no one, since it is the very voice of things, the waves and the forests.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left…

— Chuck Palanhiuk

“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“The world speaks many languages,”

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Megan Shepherd