No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English Mandarin or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

A degree of lying - you know white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense a way of concealing motives and thoughts as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

It's like there are all these languages available especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I mean language fascinates me anyway and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw hear what you heard feel what you felt. Relevant detail couched in concrete colorful language is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

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

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family living in the country leading an idyllic life.

Music as many people have said is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction but in a very general way as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language.