“We shouldn’t tolerate anyone being shamed, humiliated or dehumanized - even the people who bring out our rage.”— Brené Brown, facebook.com
“Yeah, its amazing, because the game seems to transcend any language or cultural barriers that may be there. And its beautiful to see people reacting so enthusiastically to the game of basketball.”— Kobe Bryant, espn.com
“In classrooms and daily conversations, young people are changing the way they speak and write — replacing the masculine “o” or the feminine “a” with the gender-neutral “e” in certain words — in order to change what they see as a deeply gendered culture.”— Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, washingtonpost.com
“So, credit is just the future tense of the language of money.”— Scott Z. Burns, Jake Bernstein, Ramón Fonseca, Antonio Banderas, imdb.com
“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“Not that God existed in any material way but as a shared cultural practice so widespread that it came to seem materially real, like language or gender.”— Sally Rooney, amazon.com
“Well, the cornerstone of civilization isn't language, it's science.”— Eric Heisserer, Ian Donnelly, Jeremy Renner, imdb.com
“I listened close, tried to discern what language they were speaking. I could never roll my R’s, so I traded in my tongue for someone else’s, but then they all said I was trying too hard.”— Savannah Brown, youtube.com
“The Schrutes have a word for when everything in a man's life comes together perfectly. Perfectenschlag. Right now, I am in it. I finally get a chance to prove myself to corporate. I am assembling a competent team. I am likely a father. I am so deep inside of perfectenschlag right now. And, just to b…”— Mindy Kaling, Dwight Schrute, Rainn Wilson, imdb.com
“Language is the foundation of civilization, it is the glue that holds the people together, it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.”— Eric Heisserer, Ian Donnelly, Jeremy Renner, imdb.com
“Rather than eye-KEY-uh, the retailer of cheap home furnishings is ee-KAY-uh.”— Zachary Kussin, nypost.com
“Why can't you people learn to speak my language? I learned to eat your food!”— John Frink, Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta, imdb.com
“Nearly two billion people study English as a foreign language—about four times the number of native speakers. And apps like Google Translate make it possible to communicate, almost anywhere, by typing conversations into a smartphone (presuming your interlocutor can read). Ironically, however, as the…”— Judith Thurman, newyorker.com
“Up until this morning you couldn’t speak Bulgarian. Who knows? You could be a tango champion.”— Katherine Collins, Kurt Weller, Sullivan Stapleton, imdb.com
“Howard: You know, I'm really glad you decided to learn Mandarin. Sheldon: Why? Howard: Once you're fluent, you'll have a billion more people to annoy instead of me.”— Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn, Bill Prady, Howard Wolowitz, Simon Helberg, imdb.com
“I may not say this right because I am new to English, but she has tremendous breasts, yes?”— Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Mark Brazill, Fez, Wilmer Valderrama, imdb.com
“Eric: Well, first the egg travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus where it attaches to the wall... Red: Eric, for God's sakes, that's no language for a woman to hear!”— Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Red Forman , Kurtwood Smith, imdb.com
“I’d rather die than speak German.”— Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Mick Rory / Heat Wave, Dominic Purcell, imdb.com