Colloquial Language Quotes

#1. The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. We don't have to live great lives, we just have to understand and survive the ones we've got.

Andre Dubus

#4. When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

Daniel Alarcon

#5. Ninth grade is a minor inconvenience to him. A zit-cream commercial before the Feature Film of Life.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. The fire was extinguished, and sniper fire had ceased. Nobody will budge, they were all dead. And the wind swept across jagged rocks, without a song of reconciliation.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#7. Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Mary McCarthy

#8. For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Lou Holtz

#9. The number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,000, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived.

Bill Bryson

#10. To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.

Sun Tzu

#11. Whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Laura Riding

#12. It is an indescribable
experience knowing that
what you are doing will have
an impact on the lives ... of
millions of people.

Anthony S. Fauci

#13. On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

Tamsin Greig

#14. As a kid, being with her was easy; it was the nearest to heaven I've ever been.

Kate Bernheimer

#15. The French idea of playing an instrument well is to be able to SING well upon it.

Richard Wagner

#16. My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Yvette Clarke