Round Table

I'd rather be dead than cool. - Kurt Cobain

Manners are love in a cool climate. - Quentin Crisp

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. - Daniel Webster

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

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

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

The Meathead swooped down on the table like a plague of crocuses. - Archie Bunker

Individuals who act too 'cool' often freeze under pressure. - Unknown

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

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. - Oscar Wilde

It's not so much how good a player you are, it's how cool you are. - Slash

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

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

If you spin an oriental man in a circle three times, does he become disoriented? - George Carlin

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. - C S Lewis

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. - Kesha

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

Everyone wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. - Werner Finck

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

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

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

Never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. - Pearl Bailey

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. - Johannes Brahms

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

May I never be drunk enough to try to play a foosball table alone like that dude over there who actually is. - Dr. Okay Times

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool. - Reese Witherspoon

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

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

As a rule man is a fool,
When it's hot he wants it cool,
When it's cool he wants it hot,
Always wanting what is not. - Unknown

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

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. - Steve Wozniak