“You can’t see other’s point of view when you have only one language.”— Frank Smith Related Quotes “I’d like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.”— William H. Gass “Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”— Mark Slouka “Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my head—a very complicated arrangement, with lots of bones behind—and my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way, and what a waste of time.”— George du Maurier