Hours Quote by Douglas Coupland

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

— Eugene Ionesco

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in…

— Juliette Binoche

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

— Jonathan Swift

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any…

— Cassandra Clare

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

— Suzanne Vega

“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly…

— Simon Winchester

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

Funny how things turn out, I have swallowed one of the nevers I once prematurely declared. Well its a lesson learned, though in such…

— Trinity Chasara

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

— Alan Rickman

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new…

— Booker T. Washington

Hate when people always use YOLO to make a sentence soundcool Just bought underwear, YOLO

— Anonymous