One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. – Rita Mae Brown
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield
The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. – Miguel de Cervantes
Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler
To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. – Prince Of Wales Charles
