1. The engine’s runnin’ but ain’t nobody driving = Not overly intelligent. Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley 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 Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it. - Jeff Foxworthy Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson 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 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 You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze Mancation: A man's vacation. Generally includes lots of beer, a Redneck grill, slabs of meat for cooking and a sack of fireworks. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 Hypothesis: 1. First thing a Redneck teenager says to his father on the phone; 2. Hippo, horse; thesis, placing: putting something on a horse. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 see also Language & Redneck Sections How To Cook A Deer How To Make A Deer Stand Hunting Partners Kitchen Time Out Passing The Buck Redneck Deer Stand Redneck Doork Redneck Family Gathering Redneck Porch Hunter Redneck Quotes Redneck Riding Lawnmower Redneck Teeter Totter Redneck Tractor Redneck Tricycle Redneck Wave Runner Special “Southernisms” Summer in Saskatchewan Tree Stand Woman Sharpshooter Young Body Painter |
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