#pee

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#classified #except #explained #language #light

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ↗

— William James

#common #common sense #dancing #different #just

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. ↗

— George Jessel

#brain #deliver #get #human #human brain

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#advocate #big #expression #freedom of expression #freedom of speech

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#honest #like #look #made #movie

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#changed #communicate #consider #data #high-speed

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional. ↗

— Carol Kane

#creative #emotional #hard #regulate #something