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Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

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

I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. - Humphrey Bogart

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

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

Lake: Large body of water into which a kid will jump should his friends do so - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli

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

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. - Dianne Feinstein

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution. - Chuck Martin

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

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

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

Xylophone: Revolutionary communication device that turns the sounds of the voice into a mellow, musical chime - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. - Burmese Proverb

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. - Jack Welch

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

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates

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

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. - John C Maxwell

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown