The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“Good exercise,' aka the actual worst phrase in the English language next to 'wake up' and 'all the eggs are gone.” — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.) — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Sorry," said Salo."I would say, 'Is there anything I can do?'- but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr Copy Share Image
“ 'Hubba-Hubba' never slips out," Zeke said. "You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
There are approximately 1,013,913 words in the English language but I could never put together enough to explain how I feel about you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English… — Asa Hutchinson Copy Share Image
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs!… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the context of the English language, there were many more important words than “in.” There were fancy words, historic words, words… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“One of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language is 'sustainability.' For most Americans, it means something like… — David Owen Copy Share Image
“There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“When I swung open the door, there he was: Marlboro Man, wearing Wranglers and a crisp white shirt and boots. And a… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic… — Clive James Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few things I'd rather dirty up.” — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. — Shakuntala Devi Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough Copy Share Image
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
Dare I own an example of the impossible becomes possible to earn the seventh class man (do not know the English language)today… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
