Able Quote by Ron Jeffries

“We have an obligation to use language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly,…

— Neil Gaiman

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head

— Robert Smithson

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Language is necessary. We express through it.

— Sanjay Mishra

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

— Kató Lomb

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

— Thomas Jefferson

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

— Elif Safak

“We need to write in a language that they can read.”

— Saad Ireland