Nice Try, China

No news is good news. - Ludovic Halevy

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

When the news is scary, you should look for the helpers. - Fred Rogers

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

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

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. - Liz Smith

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. - Margot Asquith

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

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

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde

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

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer. - Donald Trump

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

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

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

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. - Charles Kuralt

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. - Robert Breault

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

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening", and then proceed to tell you why it isn't. - Unknown

Why don't you put that in the headline: "He Only Did Three With Doris!" Set a lot of people straight. - Rock Hudson

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

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries. - Donald Trump

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden

NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." - Lyndon B. Johnson