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I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive. — Koren Zailckas

Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had themselves made. — John N. Gray

...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon. — Robert K. Tanenbaum

You can't win an argument with an argument. — Sukant Ratnakar

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. — George Bernard Shaw

You cannot work with men who won't work with you. — John Harvey Kellogg

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age. — J.L. Austin

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we
want to talk "about" mathematics! — Harold Jeffreys

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences. — Dan Brown

It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience. — Ann Brashares

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

He needed them to translate his extraordinary ambition into the ordinary language understood by corporate America. — Michael Lewis

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. — Idina Menzel

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. — James Joyce

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. — J.L. Austin

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code. — William Stafford

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night. — Laura Shepard Townsend

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase. — CeeLo Green

With an ambassador, you're supposed to put your best foot forward, and we've been sending mainly crap to space for forty years. — Carl Sagan

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. — Christopher Lasch

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape ... if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech. — Arthur Quinn

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary. — Ming-Dao Deng

Americans appreciate bad taste or America wouldn't look the way America does. — P. J. O'Rourke

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — P. F. Strawson