I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if... →
Howard Barker
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a... →
Kevin Barry
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think... →
Drew Barrymore
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and... →
Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and... →
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
Ruzwana Bashir
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Gregory Bateson
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its... →