Barbara Quote by Barbara Kruger

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can…

— Lewis Grizzard

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

— Trevor Noah

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

— Nicholas Ostler

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of…

— Michael Salu

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have…

— Armando Iannucci

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple…

— Amy Tan

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the…

— Marian Seldes

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

I was always influenced by language.

— Helen Dunmore

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

“People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World”

— Paulo Coelho