Proper English

Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith

I speak two languages, English and Body. - Mae West

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

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. - Alice Walker

What we've got here is a failure to communicate. - Cool Hand Luke

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

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G Bennis

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed

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

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

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

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

The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie. - Thomas Edison

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. - Peter F Drucker

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

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

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

The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

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

The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles. - Garrison Keillor

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

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

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

No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country - oughta be de-exported the hell outta here! - Archie Bunker

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

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