2,489 Quotes About Language

It is impossible to connect with other people without believing each other and we can’t believe each other unless we have some common beliefs. A common belief is like a common language through which we communicate at an emotional level.

I also saw that language was no more than a conspiracy devised by human beings. If someone spoke, Irealized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings. So, I stopped making upmeanings and the sounds became very amusing. I could see patterns spewing out of their mouths. If I keptstaring, the person would just disintegrate and turn into a blob of energy. Then all that was left waspatterns!

God is neither just nor unjust. ‘No one be hurt in the slightest’; that is God’s language. Justice and injustice is people’s language.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

I speak the language of electromagnetic radiation.

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

The language of a river inscribesover eyes of moths and fliesthe navel of the land is a lake.

A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one’s own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.