It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.