“Don’t you think it’s peculiar that the English language only has one word to encompass so many different feelings?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. — Larry King Copy Share Image
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church...” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People who use chew instead of you, or misspell words on purpose because they think it sounds better, thanks for disrespecting the… — Nathan Schwake Copy Share Image
“The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who… — Tim Cameron Copy Share Image
Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an… — David Wong Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell,… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language."… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly —… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told… — George WBush Copy Share Image
“ Hey --if you guys are goin’ to the movie, c-c-c-can you drive me to the mall?” he yelled. “Sure, Mike,” Marlboro… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
Good morning is a term used to welcome or to greet someone in the hours before noon of each day. Good morning… — Author Name Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image