Character Quote by Susie Dent

Language uses us as much as we use language.

— Robin Lakoff

There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance,…

— Marlene Caroselli

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

— Laura Schlessinger

Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important.

— Crystal Hana Kim

Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.

— Philippe Sollers

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from…

— Marcel Proust

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

— Edward Sapir

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Cesar Chavez

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

— Ellen Gilchrist

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

— Dan Levy