Coins Quote by David Lodge

Prety word are not always true, and true word are not always prety.

— Kaceem Madridista

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

— Terry Eagleton

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

— Rumi

I have not suggested that the emergence of language is instantaneous. Rather, that the rewiring of the brain enabling an infinite array of structured…

— Noam Chomsky

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The…

— Steven Pinker

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used…

— Noam Chomsky

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which…

— Antonin Artaud

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

— Jack Kerouac

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

“Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer…

— Daniel Kahneman

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ¦ Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Anonymous