Agents Quote by Harry Mathews

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you…

— Grant Imahara

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

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

— Garry Winogrand

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse…

— Richard M. Weaver

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer…

— David Crystal

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

Language uses us as much as we use language.

— Robin Lakoff

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about…

— Howard Nemerov