English language Quote by John W. Vessey, Jr

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

— Anonymous

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or…

— Andrew Dalby

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

— Louise Bogan

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

— Karl Lagerfeld

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

— Peter Farb

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

— Kevin Kline