Deep thought Quote by Jack Handey

“The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no they are…

— Stephen Fry

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find…

— Frank Zappa

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were…

— Ilhan Omar

“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.”

— John Biggins

“and language upend its papers looking for an entry adequate to the sliced smell of budding poplars.”

— Karen Solie

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough…

— George Carlin

“As Grams treaded water, she tapped my forehead. 'What's in here, Poppy, is scarier than anything you'll encounter in the depths of the ocean.…

— Shelley Coriell

“A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to thrive, not…

— Robert Lane Greene

“They jabbered amongst themselves in a bizarre jibberish that sounded like Spanish gone wrong: maybe gringo Spanglish, some kind of Espanahuatl that I hadn’t…

— Ernest Hogan

“All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was ‘OK, baby,’ the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their…

— George Orwell

“The Italians say “Chow.” To them it means “Bye,” but to me it means food. Of the greetings, goodbye is the desert.”

— Jarod Kintz

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman