“The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”
Elizabeth Hardwick
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides”
Rita Mae Brown
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
William Shakespeare
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
Walt Disney
“Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation”
Angela Carter