Language proverbs

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◆ The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

- Courtney Love98

◆ When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

- Virginia Woolf98

◆ The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

- George Orwell98

◆ What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

- Jacques Derrida98

◆ Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

- Douglas Adams98

◆ Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

- Bauvard98

◆ For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

- Aldous Huxley98

◆ Language is a virus from outer space

- William S. Burroughs98

◆ All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

- Marcel Duchamp98

◆ Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

- Patricia A. McKillip98

◆ Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

- Jeffrey Eugenides98

◆ I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

- Jack Gilbert98

◆ Language is the source of misunderstandings.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry98

◆ I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and popped it in my mouth.

- Jarod Kintz98

◆ You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

- Lani Diane Rich98