Quote by Peggy Christian

“Stop with the intimating eyebrow thing.” “I wasn’t aware my eyebrows intimidated.” […] “Well, they do.” “Interesting.”

— Keri Lake

“There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.”

— Jack Vance

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Looks are deceptive and has an ability to compel.”

— Momin Mishra

“I CAN SPEAK. I JUST LIKE TO SHOW OFF MY NICE PENMANSHIP.”

— Mia Sheridan

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

— Anthony Burgess

“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different…

— Alretha Thomas

“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.”

— John Sinclair

“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