Able Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person…

— Gene Wolfe

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well…

— Tamlyn Tomita

How many languages do we really speak?

— Alfredo Jaar

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

— Kurt Gödel

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

— Laura Marling

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For me, language is about the impossibility of communicating what we precisely wish to communicate and this gorgeous attempt that we make to do…

— Mohsin Hamid

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

— Russell Hoban

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

— Erykah Badu