Robin Skelton Quotes

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Language cares.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

There is no language that love does not speak.