George Carlin Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Mean Girls

  "George Carlin: Jammin' in New York", www.imdb.com. 1992.

• By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

  George Carlin

  Truth, Stupid People, Tools

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

• 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

• We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Ideas, Quality

• The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

  George Carlin

  Wings, Issues, Together

• Everyone smiles in the same language.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a... secret; "You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that." Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in.

  George Carlin

  Government, Law, Games

  "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.

• Language always gives you away.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Language

• Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

  George Carlin

  Mind, Would Be, Tools

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.

• I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

  George Carlin

  Interesting, Ears, Language

• There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.

  George Carlin

  People, Groups, Use

  "George Carlin (1937–2008): Legendary Comedian Challenged Status Quo Throughout 50-Year Career". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. June 24, 2008.

• My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Father, Language

• I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

  "George Carlin confronts reality" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 29, 2004.

• Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

  George Carlin

  Play, Creating, Roles

• 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

  Religious, Ideas, Superstitions

  "Counterculture Comedian George Carlin Dies at 71". www.foxnews.com. June 23, 2008.

• We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Landscape, Language

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

• The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

  George Carlin

  Coke, Body, Awful

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Embodiment, Way, Apotheosis

  Source: mikestarling.weebly.com

• I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

  George Carlin

  New York, Trying, Use

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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