Banality Quote by Edwin Newman

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the…

— David Crystal

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

— Andrew Solomon

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley

As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat.…

— Tom Lehrer

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language…

— Rene Daumal