I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut… — Elise Boulding Copy Share Image
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“And then the problem with those who speak only English is this: they don't know how to listen; they are busy looking… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
“When we were kids, Fitz was unbeatable in Scrabble. It would drive Eric crazy, because he wasn't used to be bested by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I can't pretend like it never happened" I told her. "You shouldn't - you should never forget. But part of surviving is… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
“Their moral indignation was sometimes feigned, but the Elizabethans’ nearly four hundred references to the Florentine Secretary introduced the derogatory terms ‘Machiavellian’… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“DECEMBER 3, 1992 No LOL Matter On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world’s first text message, making it a very… — Michael Farquhar Copy Share Image
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human;… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
“We now live in the Esperantists’ dreamworld, but the universal language of natural science is English, a language that is the native… — Michael D. Gordin Copy Share Image
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
“Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid… — A. Narrator Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
![“When we were kids, Fitz was unbeatable in Scrabble. It would drive Eric crazy, because he wasn't used to be bested by Fitz in much of anything. But Fitz had an uncanny memory, and once he saw a word, he wouldn't forget it. [. . .] But Eric wasn't used to be second-best, so he commissioned me into…” quote by Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ad/jodi-picoult-45_english-language_when-we-were-kids-fitz-was-unbeatable-in_1170298.jpg)
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