Great Quotes (A)

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

Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers. - Unknown

Synonym Bun: What a thesaurus eats for breakfast - Unknown

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Ratify: To use a spell and turn a person into a rodent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing. - Ted Koppel

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Successful Gossip Columnist: Top man on the quote 'em pole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

You don't really understand something unless you can communicate it in a simple way. - Albert Einstein

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

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive. - Joshua Bruns

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field

"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

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!' - Conan O'Brien