Delicacy Quote by Mervin Miller

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“Language exists to conceal true thought.”

— Charles Talleyrand

“Language is the dress of thoughts.”

— Samual Jackson

“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt,…

— Peter Cameron

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the…

— Joan Didion

“We can only think in a language that we master.”

— don Jose Ruiz

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell

“.. that language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.”

— Thomas Mann

“I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn’t be put into words. That was…

— Alexandra Adornetto