“The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
While I was a part of the movement Teach For Change, an NGO which focuses on training government primary and high school… — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
Our children learn the phonetic method, which is why they're very good spellers, I suppose. Because rather than ABC or just saying… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
“Nouns can act like adjectives (“chocolate cake”); adjectives can act like nouns (“grammarians are the damned”); verbs can look like verbs (“she’s… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That’s… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English.… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer… — Shelby Foote 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
“The most common double-letter pairing in the English language being the double L, of course, challenged only by the double T.” — Christa Faust 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
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — 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
“If you looked at any single word in the English language close enough, you would see within the great glowing coils of… — Joseph Fink 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
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
