Hope Quote by Brian Friel

“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt…

— Mervin Miller

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not.”

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants,…

— Bill Bryson

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make self-aggrandizing myths…

— Robert Lane Greene

“I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates…

— Jean Cocteau

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.”

— Muriel Barbery

“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but it was…

— Muriel Barbery

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland