Quotes About Language

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

How much better might human communication be if words were as precious as diamonds? If each of us were allotted only 100 words per day?

Words are the voice of the heart.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.