Language Quote by Gao Xingjian

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa

“Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the…

— Robert Lane Greene

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and oversimplifies.”

— Daniel M. Ingram