Complexity Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to…

— Gao Xingjian

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries…

— Zadie Smith

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually…

— Paul de Man

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at…

— Simon Van Booy

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply…

— Edward Sapir

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about…

— Howard Nemerov

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm…

— Jenova Chen

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi