Traditional Language Area

Famous quotes containing the words traditional, language and/or area:

    “What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do anything a man could do.... Mrs. Thatcher did not have one traditional feminine cell in her body.”
    —Julie Burchill (b. 1960)

    “Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “Now for civil service reform. Legislation must be prepared and executive rules and maxims. We must limit and narrow the area of patronage. We must diminish the evils of office-seeking. We must stop interference of federal officers with elections. We must be relieved of congressional dictation as to appointments.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)