Connections Quote by Rolf Potts

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of…

— Roger Ascham

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

— Frans de Waal

I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up…

— Judith Butler

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and…

— Edward T. Hall

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

Language is a social event.

— Richard Rodriguez

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

It is by metaphor that language grows.

— Julian Jaynes

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

— Jonathan Lethem

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language…

— Terence McKenna

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