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• Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court’s decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state’s borders.

  David Limbaugh

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Language

• Metaphor is embodied in language.

  Dennis Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’

  Demetri Martin

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Language

• Language is fossil Poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Language

• And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don’t, it’s just real hard to get through the day, and I’ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

  Delta Burke

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Language

• Language is the light of the mind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

  Dean Kamen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they’re ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  M. F. Husain

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Time, Language

•  The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

  Courtney Love

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Language

• The stuff that I dig, it’s usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they’re singing in, but I’m really communing with this person.

  David Johansen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Language

• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

  Lily Tomlin

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Satisfy, Man, Language

• Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

  Phil Knight

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Language
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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Inspirational, Kindness

  Tags in Language, Blind

• What’s great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

  David Krumholtz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists’ language.

  David John Chalmers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• I’m not trying to stump anybody… it’s the beauty of the language that I’m interested in.

  Buddy Holly

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Trying, Language

• We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.

  Buck Henry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Language

• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I’m sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

  W.Daniel Hillis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas, Invention, Language

• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

  Stephen King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language, Communication, Writing