Language Quote by China Miéville

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a…

— Oliver Benjamin

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

— Lucille Clifton

“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

— Donald Barthelme

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

We must plow through the whole of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

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

— John Sutherland

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

— Eugene Ionesco