language Quotes

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

A letter does not blush.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.