Noisy Japanese Women

Noise: A stench in the ear. - Ambrose Bierce

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

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

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

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

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Unknown

Baby: a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Knox

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. - Mark Twain

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill

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

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If it weren't for the Japanese and Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. - Stanley Ross

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

Karaoke: 1. Japanese for 'Drunk with Microphone'; 2. Japanese for 'tone deaf'. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought. - Arthur Schopenhauer

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone

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

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