Be prepared Quote by Chinua Achebe

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to…

— Chinua Achebe

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their…

— Edward Sapir

Don't matter which language u speak money a the universal Grammar $$$$$$

— Vybz Kartel

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

— Ben Jonson

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil,…

— H. G. Wells

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States…

— Sandy Berger

Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to…

— James Frank

The cost of anything is what you are prepared to do to obtain it.

— Steven Redhead

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

— John Burnside

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

— William James

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

— Cecil Taylor