Jane Wagner Quotes

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

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

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.

I love how humans talk.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

Life would be boring without gossip.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.