Language Lies Quotes
- Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the… — Kofi Annan
- Eighty percent of language lies to us. — Deena Metzger
- The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison
- Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists… — Octavio Paz
- However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making… — Walter Kirn