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QuotaBillsIs there another word for synonym? - George Carlin
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb
Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert Greenleaf
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber
To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten
England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine
If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright
The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. - Reed Hastings
Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well. - Tim Frick
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown