American Language Quotes:

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

- Henry Adams

source: 1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

topic: Art, Language, American Language, American Education

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: America, Common, Language, Two Nations, England And America

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets, Vocabulary Words, Alleyways

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

- Dave Barry

topic: Inspirational Life, Years, People, Spoken Language, Language Culture

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Trying, Seducing, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

- Michael Douglas

topic: Greed, Memorable Movie, Institute, Misquoting, Street Life

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

- James F. Cooper

source: "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

topic: Ambition, Simplicity, Abuse, American Language

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

- Frank Church

topic: Illinois, Government, Language, American Language

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

- Salvador de Madariaga

topic: Expression, Valleys, Language, American Language

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.

- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

topic: Writing, Native American, School, American Language

My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.

- Paula Broadwell

source: Source: www.vanityfair.com

topic: New York, Style, Mistress, American Language, Gold Standard

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

- Deion Sanders

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dog, Passion, Mean, American Language

H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.

- Bill Barich

topic: Long, Drunk, Tree, Limerick, Hammered

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

- Cyril Connolly

topic: Communication, Survival, Society, American Language

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

- Dan Bern

source: Song: New American Language, Album: New American Language, 2001

topic: Dream, Nice, Littles, Some Nice, American Language

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

- Ty Pennington

topic: New Orleans, Sound, Language, American Language