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  • If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. -- Frank Luntz
  • Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. -- Timothy West
  • We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. -- Tom Robbins
  • I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride. -- Richard H. Davis
  • Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure. -- Sally Phillips
  • The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound. -- Elmore Leonard
  • Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that! -- Charles Studd
  • When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing. -- Brit Hume
  • I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write. -- Morris Gleitzman
  • It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. -- W. G. Sebald
  • My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can't have it. -- Louise Nurding
  • I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better. -- Lucas Black
  • You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. -- Greg Boyle
  • When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. -- Lois Lowry
  • I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial. -- Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. -- Kathy Acker
  • A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad. -- Peter Porter
  • With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. -- Bob Hope
  • Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. -- George Mikes
  • He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language." -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • I don't want to do an edgy show, I didn't want bad language. I think edginess is the new hackiness. -- Zach Galifianakis
  • Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. -- Christopher Isherwood
  • Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. -- Ken Wilber
  • There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. -- Harper Lee
  • War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language. -- A. O. Scott
  • People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. -- B.R. Myers
  • People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else. -- B.R. Myers
  • If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. -- George Orwell
  • Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition. -- George Carlin
  • All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used. -- Liane Moriarty
  • Donâ??t use the language of â??goodâ?? or â??badâ?? when talking about blood sugar numbers â?? these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes. -- Adam Brown
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