Explore Quotes on Language

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives.

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton.

I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

If I could go back, we would have just released 'Body Language' and not put any energy in trying to make a pop music career, because it took our total focus off of living in the present. We should have been appreciating being famous.

Because I think it's so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language that they speak, to just look at the colour of their skin and all of a sudden reduce them to harmful stereotypes.

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

A woman's physical body language and intelligence change as her age progresses.

Language is very important to me.

Dance like any other art form has no language.

It's very important for humans to see dance, it's a language that everybody understands.

Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

Haryanavi is an easy to understand language. People enjoy speaking, listening it and to relate to it.

I would like to use my know how and skills in the film industry to promote Haryanavi culture, language and movies.

I think, whoever is making great films in whatever language is likely to do well.