Bags Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages:…

— Donna Tartt

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained…

— Marilyn Hacker

To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay…

— Abraham Maslow

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

— Matthew McConaughey

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.”

— Malebo Sephodi

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand