“As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language”
Albert Jack Nock
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
William Shakespeare
“My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships.”
Carol Gilligan
“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
John Andrew Holmes
