Communicate Quote by Jane Goodall

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

— Lily Tomlin

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language…

— Rene Daumal

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

I can't think of how many meetings I've sat through where people have explained that language has become less important because we now live…

— Michael Rosen

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly…

— Casey Miller

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

— Jane Wagner

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm…

— Jenova Chen

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they…

— Anna Deavere Smith

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

— Rebecca Solnit

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand