Language Quote by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Tell me, just how many lives need to be lost until someone realises the impact that their words can have on another individual?”

— Isha Barlas

“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.”

— Angelika Regossi

“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.”

— Anthony Burgess

“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. And I needed to use my words…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“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

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”

— Terry Jones

“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too…

— Colette

“Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know,…

— Amy Gail Hansen

“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”

— Simon Van Booy

“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.”

— Shannon Lynette