“Reading a novel is altogether different from reading a newspaper, but it's all language. If you go to a concert, you have some kind of reaction to it. If the newspaper is Chinese, you can't understand it. But if you hear something by a Chinese composer, if it's playful, for instance, you understand.”
George Perle
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
William Shakespeare
“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
“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
“As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language”
Albert Jack Nock
