Good enough Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and…

— Jarod Kintz

“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think about what…

— Jessica Brody

“English is my second language," she says, "and your bad comebacks are still a little over the top, sweetie.”

— Erin Hayes

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?”

— Jarod Kintz

“I can’t translate myself into language any more.”

— Alice Notley

“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

“No new world without a new language.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

— David Malouf

“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

— Dana Reinhardt