Ain't Peter's Place

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For me to be a saint means for me to be myself. - Thomas Merton

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. - Robert Neville

What we've got here is a failure to communicate. - Cool Hand Luke

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

I claim there ain't another Saint as great as Valentine. - Ogden Nash

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

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach

I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the making of a saint is the task of a lifetime. - Charles Swindoll

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey