Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. – Rita Mae Brown
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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody. – Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn
Men dont come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. Were looking across the room at you, and we dont care about your hopes and dreams. We dont care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted. – Steve Harvey
Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy. – Terri Guillemets
