Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. Gilbert Highet bigbranchbud Change image and share on social
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen evocationlanguagemixture Change image and share on social
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking. Peter Guber audiencebodyenergy Change image and share on social
Language is a nice way to remember things. Erin McKean languageniceremember Change image and share on social
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. Ludwig Wittgenstein complicatelanguageorganism Change image and share on social
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Noam Chomsky creationfixfree share on social
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Roland Barthes desirefingerlanguage Change image and share on social
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. Kenneth L. Pike adequatedegreelanguage Change image and share on social
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. Noam Chomsky affairhumanlanguage Change image and share on social
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world. Steven Pinker exposefistulahuman Change image and share on social