Not only does the English Language borrow words from other…

I'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs, to write about all of these faded things we hope would mean the most to me.

— Mayday Parade

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new…

— Booker T. Washington

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

— Elias Canetti

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

— Paulo Coelho

“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the…

— Gary Anderson

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she…

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is…

— Jiro Adachi

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you…

— Brunonia Barry

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

— Henry Ford

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“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 while actually…

— Emma Chase