Language Quote by Bill Bryson

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

“Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.”

— John Green

“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”

— Daniel Keyes

“Such persistence in memorizing fashionable jargon, wasted effort. I had been conditioned by my education, which had shaped my mind, my voice.”

— Elena Ferrante

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

— Paulo Coelho

“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound. Words, most…

— Monique Truong

“Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“Words linger and words matter, I learned, and it’s not possible to predict the fallout they can have on a subject’s life.”

— Beth Macy

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas