Court Quote by Andrew Lakey

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

— Paulo Coelho

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. And that must be feeling.

— Anonymous

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer…

— J. L. Austin

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

— Alice Walker

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

— Louis Aragon

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