The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one! — Romain Grosjean Copy Share Image
What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.” — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place… — Pressey Edward Pearson Clapp Robert Parker Gunn Mrs. Lyman O Copy Share Image
A well known director wouldn't take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English.… — Marsha Thomason Copy Share Image
“She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that… — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“संकट मोचन हनुमानाष्टक मत्तगयन्द छन्द बाल समय रबि भक्षि लियो तब तीनहुँ लोक भयो अँधियारो। ताहि सों त्रास भयो जग को यह… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
