Language of film

Film speaks in neologisms. When a language does not already exist, one must be something of an artist to speak it, however poorly. For to speak it is partly to invent it, whereas to speak the language of everyday is simply to use it"
Mertz

Resistance to theory

The resistance to theory is the resistance to the use of language about language.

"Ibid.

Second soul

To have a second language is to have a second soul

Charlemagne

Meaning of "is" is

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
- William Jefferson Clinton 

Beneficiary and Victim

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

- Aldous Huxley

Preventing Communication

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

Euphemisms

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

- Quentin Crisp

Foreign Language

‎"Life is a foreign language; all humans mispronounce it." Christopher Morley

Fossil Poetry

"Language is fossil poetry"

-Emerson

Every Form of Expression

"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

 Edward Sapir

Invisible

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible" 
— Vladimir Nabokov

Rhythm of a lost word

"The rhythm of a lost word may be there without a sound to clothe it…. Everyone must know the tantalizing effect of the blank rhythm of some forgotten verse, restlessly dancing in one's mind, striving to be filled out with words" (William James). 

Depth of thought

"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sight and sound. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought" (Hurston). 

Art

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know
-Sapir