Quotes About Language

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

Real communication is not possible. That is why my message, your perception and your expression shall never be the same.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do