Code Quote by William Stafford

Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that…

— Daniel H. Wilson

I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so…

— Jacques Derrida

Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

— Rita Mae Brown

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

— Jeanette Winterson

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language…

— Ben Gibbard

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to…

— Hilaire Belloc

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

— Jeanette Winterson

In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we…

— Marcel Proust