Subject: Communication » Language (Page 13)

She was a bilingual illiterate… she couldn't read in two different languages.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I was in a book store and saw a French looking girl, she was bi-illterate… she couldn’t read in two languages.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I don't speak Chinese, but I figure if I try, I've got to be saying something.

(1962 – ) Canadian-American actor, comedian, author & radio personality

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

Congratulation: The civility of envy.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

If you substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

A fly was very close to being called a “land,” cause that's what they do half the time.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Spanish? I thought they were just English words I didn't know.

(1971 – ) American actress

I hope God speaks English; if I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

His tongue was an unguided missile.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Verbs has to agree with their subject.

Congress: A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The Norwegian language has been described as German spoken underwater.

You know what I hate?… Indian givers… no, I take that back.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.

(1888 – 1965) British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet