"Whenever you see the word cuisine used..." - Quote by George Carlin
Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.
More by George Carlin
“I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.”
“Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?”
“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.”
More on Consumerism
“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.”
“Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.”
“I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.”
More on Language
“Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil”
“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”
“We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.”