Noisy Japanese Women

Noise: A stench in the ear. - Ambrose Bierce

Boy: a noise with dirt on it. - Unknown

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin

Far too noisy, my dear Mozart. Far too many notes. - Emperor Ferdinand of Austria

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

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

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. - Margaret Heffernan

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

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

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Unknown

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

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

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff

If it weren't for the Japanese and Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. - Stanley Ross

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - 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 names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone

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

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

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

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