"By and large, language is a tool for…" — George Carlin
"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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546 Quotes by George Carlin
George Carlin has 546 quotes on this site.
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is…
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Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why…
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set…
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it…
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then…
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The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
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More Communication Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
— Malcolm Arnold
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
— Isaac Asimov
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than…
— Francis Bacon
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through…
— Erykah Badu
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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