Your In America

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

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

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

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

You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

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

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

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. - D.H. Lawrence

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

I found a country [America] with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perogord

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. - Ellsworth Huntington

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers

In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you. - Yakov Smirnoff

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

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you. - Amy Tan

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

Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. - Marshall McLuhan

"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter

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

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will

Democracy is very different in U.S. and A. from Kazakhstan. In America, woman can vote, but horse cannot! - Borat Sagdiyev

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - Oscar Wilde

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

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

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt

Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell