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

“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

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

— Mouloud Benzadi

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“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

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

— Megan Shepherd

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

— Kiran Nagarkar

“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.”

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

“Human Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Words being but a breath, the stir of awakened minds is like the rustling of leaves.”

— Victor Hugo

“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