Quotes About Language

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.