Language Quote by Kory Stamper

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

May be you can never understand the languages of different people, but you can always understand them with their behaviour...

— Rohit Padhra

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

— Bruno Tonioli

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are…

— Garth Stein

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

— Cees Nooteboom

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

— Erik Naggum

Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why…

— Julia Penelope

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah,…

— Jackie Chan