Language Quotes

— Most of them don't speak English.
— They speak English well enough. Gaelic-speaking region. Did they not teach you that at Langley?
— No, they did not teach me that at Langley. For the simple fact that Langley is the CIA, you idiot, not the FBI.
— You didn't know people in west Ireland speak Gaelic and I'm the idiot?

You got a real big mouth on you, you know that?

— Don't you ever get tired of reading that book?
— No.
— Well, what's in it, anyway?
— Things.
— Oh, for Christ's sake!
— It is called Talmon. It contains the words of our great teacher, Shismar.
— I suppose you have to know the Drac language to read it, right?
— It would help.
— So teach me the Drac language.
— It is not for you, Davidge.
— Shismar is too good for us humans, is that it?
— Not too good for humans, but too good for you.
— Now you're a judge of character.
— Do you not remember what you say about Shismar?
— Well, maybe you forgot what you said about Mickey Mouse!
— That was wrong. I did not mean it.
— I didn't mean what I said about Shismar, either.

— Each time a word becomes prohibited, you remove a stone from the democratic foundation.
Society demonstrates its impotence in the face of a concrete problem by removing words from the language.
— I think society would claim that... That politically correctness is a very precise expression of democratic concern for minorities.
— And I say that society is as cowardly as the people in it, who in my opinion are also too stupid for democracy.

— So, you're a smoker. I thought you were a nonsmoker. Sorry. Do you understand what I'm saying?
— Yes.
— Good. Good. Or should I speak slower?
— Yes.
— Do you follow or should I speak slower?
— Yes.
— Um...are you a giraffe?
— Yes.