Animal Quote by Walker Percy

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— Noam Chomsky

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

— Malcolm De Chazal

If animals could talk, they would tell us that the human beings should be simply more simple and less complicated.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That…

— Jeff Stilson

It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may…

— Jeff Stilson

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the…

— Richard Dawkins

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

— Thornton Wilder

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

— Alice Walker

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

— Thornton Wilder