Comprehension Quote by Vicki Archer

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were…

— Don Cupitt

“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

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the…

— Lisa Samson

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.”

— Ritesh Shrivastav

“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Alison Bechdel

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose…

— Carson McCullers

“...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.”

— Lauren Oliver