'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say. Raymond Arroyo
A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint. Janet Fitch
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. Thomas Mann
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future. Margaret Atwood
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that. Anthony Bourdain
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. James A.Baldwin
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem. Daniel Everett
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. Harry Mathews
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. Kobe Bryant
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.Kobe Bryant
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. Deion Sanders
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times. Sandra Cisneros
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it. Rob Bell