Language Quotes

"I need help. There are two men trying to break down the door."
" I see. What problem do you have with the door?"
"No, no. There are two men with guns trying to break in."
"Your Spanish is excellent, sir."
"Thank you."
(GUNSHOTS)
"I gotta go!"
"Sir? Americans".

phone conversation

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The Tourist

Frank Tupelo / Alexander Pearce

Concierge Alessio

Break-in

We all know the difference between the pronouns he or she and thou, the plainest spoken amongst us; we all feel the influence of a something beyond common civility in our personal intercourse with each other—a something more early implanted. We cannot give any body the disagreeable hints that we may have been very full of the hour before. We feel things differently.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Bible. New Testament

The First Epistle of John

Truth

Love

Affairs

Well, he plays things close to the vest now. And a hard-learned lesson it was. Three days out on the venture, the first mate comes to him and says everything's an equal share, that should mean the location of the treasure too. So Jack gives up the bearings. That night there was a mutiny. They marooned Jack on an island and left him to die. But not before he'd gone mad with the heat.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Joshamee Gibbs

Life

I'm the Baba in Arabic!
You're the Baba in Russia!

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Miron Yanovich Fedorov (Oxxxymiron)

Arabs

Russians

Funny Quotes

Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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