"Language is by its very nature a communal thing..."

-- T. E. Hulme

#Language Quotes

“In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.”
“I think Iâ€™m his biggest fan. Like, Iâ€™m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. Iâ€™m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.”
“Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.”
“On the Internet, you can form a community without having to go through the trouble of meeting anyone.”
“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.”
“A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.”
“In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.”
“It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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