
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