We Call It Lake

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. - Leo Rosten

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman

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

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

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

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

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

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect. - Owens L. Pomeroy

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. - Jack Horner

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

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

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake? - Dylan Moran

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

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

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