Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
“I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“In 1957, a young lieutenant in the Swedish Air Force named Bjorn Nyberg decided, somewhat inexplicably, that the surest means to improve his… — Jon Peterson Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas… — Kerry Max Cook Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
“He was appalled at the awful intellectual chasm that yawned between him and his people. He could never cross it and explain… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
In the English language the word lust has a very bad and unfounded reputation. Although, (in reality) this wonderful cerebral cortex induced… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense. — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“—I probably shouldn’t tell you this, I said. —Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in the English language.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“had used every word in the English language trying to express myself to this guy over the past five years, and had… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language. — Erez Lieberman Aiden Copy Share Image
English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no… — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,” — Jane Green Copy Share Image