Badgers Quote by Geoffrey K. Pullum

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

“Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated…

— Roland Barthes

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

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

— Roland Barthes

“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”

— Minae Mizumura

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of words together,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.”

— Parke Godwin

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps...

— Harry S. Truman

“Now no one is going to make you talk--possibly no one can. But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his…

— Maya Angelou

“the end of the day we’re all animals. We need to be shown our pee ell a see ee. A little clarity will go…

— Arundhati Roy