Quotes About Language

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Snoopy didn't start off being a Beagle. It's just that 'beagle' is a funny word.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell BINGO!