Recombobulation Area
It's next to the Whatchamacallit Room
Recombobulation: The act of recombobulating; putting back into order; removing confusion.
QuotaBillsFair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb
Synonym Bun: What a thesaurus eats for breakfast - Unknown
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen
Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards
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
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand
I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
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
If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. - Dr. Seuss
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown
The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton
Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb
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
All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field
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
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