English language Quote by Derek Walcott

“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott”

— Derek Walcott

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it…

— Franz Kafka

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

— David Abram

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

— James Nicoll

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

— Roy Horn

English is a very expressive language.

— Ken Watanabe

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

— P. D. James

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away…

— Daniel Tammet

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

— Saul Bellow

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter