Language Quote by Ana Castillo

Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the…

— Bill Bryson

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about…

— Jenova Chen

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

— Amiri Baraka

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

— Jarvis Cocker

Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept.

— Michael Rosen

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today…

— Susie Dent

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly…

— Casey Miller

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse…

— Richard M. Weaver