“Autism, a mental condition characterized by difficulty in communicating and using language and abstract concepts. That's the definition. Does it sound like I'm describing a surgeon?”— David Shore, Dr. Marcus Andrews, Hill Harper, imdb.com
“I give you the winner in the category of the most mispronounced word in the world: karaoke.”— dczook, medium.com
“Steve: You mean Jenga? Roger: Well, I think it's pronounced Henga, but if you wanna crap all over the Spanish language, go ahead.”— Mike Barker, Roger The Alien, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“Gus Baker: Hey! We're on the air! You can't use that language! Beavis: We use language?”— Kristofor Brown, Beavis, Mike Judge, imdb.com
“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put th…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He sh…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. Now it was a diplomatist—that is, a practical manager of one kind of government matters—who invented that wonderful phrase—a whole world full of humbug in half-a-dozen words—that 'Language was given to us to…”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying…”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“English, then, came as an escape, a secret code shared between me and no one — not even English speakers, at least not in the form it took through misheard lyrics, approximated words, and half-digested novels. It was a language that could write me, and not the other way.”— Roman Muradov, medium.com
“Millennials are 'breaking the constraints' of written English to 'be as expressive as you can be in spoken language.'”— Rachel Thompson, mashable.com
“The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept, any idea of class, any political or tactical slogan, without recourse to the help of a rather suspect dramatic or psychological past.”— Sergei Eisenstein, casaruibarbosa.gov.br
“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? Language is much closer to film than painting is.”— Sergei Eisenstein, books.google.com
“Language matters. It is the. . .highest purpose of language to make things clear & help us see. We are all language detectives.”— Rebecca Solnit, amazon.com
“Tell her to read whatever interests her & protect her if someone declares what she's reading to be trash. No one can fathom what happens between a human being & written language.”— Barry Lopez, amazon.com
“Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities. It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.”— Wade Davis, npr.org