Language Quotes

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.

By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

The language of truth is simple.

Language speaks and not the human.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.