Communication And Language Quotes

The communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living
The Little Gidding — T. S. Eliot

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

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening. — Mary Wigman

God doesn't need verbal language for communication. — Mary C. Neal

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

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

Effective communication is all about how you talk and listen together with your body language. — Lauren Jones

A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught. — Benny Lewis

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

Never mistake legibility for communication. — David Carson

Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently. — Pamela Cummins

Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions. — Sam Owen

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has. — Robert Lane Greene

Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning. — David Mitchell

Teach me to speak the language of men. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. — John McWhorter

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. — Ellen J. Barrier

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. — Bill Watterson

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. — David Brooks

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier. — Frank Leahy

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. — Jean Dubuffet

Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words. — Dixie Waters

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form. — Matthew Bellamy

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence. — Eugene H. Peterson

The language of truth is simple. — Euripides

Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread. — Tessa Dare

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

The purpose of language is to facilitate expression and communication, not to altogether define or contain them. — Jennifer Hamady

Communication is not about the sender or receiver; it's about the sending. And that's done with language. — Richard O'Barry

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic. — Richard Rohr

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow

Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented. — Vivek Shanbhag

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. — Laura Esquivel

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication. — Oren Arnold

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. — Aravind Adiga

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker. — Jillian Keenan

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings. — Sam Owen

Deeds, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. — Walt Disney Company

You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. — Lily King

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. — Ethan Zuckerman

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

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. — Gregory Bateson

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. — Richard Brookhiser

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion. — A. J. Jacobs

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. — Stephen Stills

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

Language is memory and metaphor. — Storm Jameson

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman. — Rick Perlstein

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

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all. — Janet Morris

Violence is the language of the inarticulate. — Aussiescribbler

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. — Ferdinand De Saussure

God uses language to create and command us. — Eugene H. Peterson

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop. — Greg Carlson

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. — Isaiah Berlin

The art of communication is the language of leadership. — James Humes

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought. — Marty Rubin

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. — Christopher Ricks

Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say. — Indu Muralidharan

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

Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language. — Dianna Booher

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial. — Thomas Kuhn

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

In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language. — Patrick White

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Henri Delacroix

Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you. — Karl Popper

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. — Shepard Fairey

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say. — Jim George

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language ... — Edward Gibbon

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively — Sunday Adelaja

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. — Constantin Stanislavski

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