Expression Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

— Mark Hopkins

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

— Sonia Johnson

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection…

— John Dewey

“Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.”

— Cirilo F. Bautista

Language is a systematic verbal symbolism.

— RMKATTA

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

— Stanley Fish

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…

— Peter L. Berger