Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. — Nelson Mandela

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For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

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I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! ― Sophia Bush

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If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately. ― chloe neill, Biting Bad

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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God's language is empathy, compassion, kindness, and silence. ― Shree Shambav

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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. ― Henry David Thoreau

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

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