Unspoken Language Quotes

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

'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.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.