Language Quote by Alice McDermott

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

— Frederick Buechner

Only where there is language is there world.

— Adrienne Rich

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

— Timothy West

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

— Cynthia Ozick

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world…

— Viggo Mortensen

The world is God's language to us.

— Simone Weil

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it…

— Terence McKenna

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

— Kevin Constantine

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

— Theodore Roosevelt

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes,…

— Camille Paglia