“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Fun fact: Poop is the only word in the English language that can have its last letter removed and it still means… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing.… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.'… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables… — Gary Anderson Copy Share Image
The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“It's hard to use the English language. I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't… — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing.… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“It is Mother’s Day. Those ought to be two of the most beautiful words in the English language. They should cause kids… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language.” — Andrea Boeshaar Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. — John Clayton Copy Share Image
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Guy1: Did you know that sugar is the only word in the English language that the su makes a sh sound? Guy2:… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
“You know what you do? You know how rain takes the colour out of everything? That's what you do to the English… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“english is a language which is made up of fun if we dint know english we will miss the fun” — Rubab Abdullah Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
