“There is a love for structure in them that I recognize, and a desire to worship correctness that I know and I… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“IN my early days there were stories about funny refugees murdering the English language. A refugee woman goes to the greengrocer to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'. — Hal Eaton Copy Share Image
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a… — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the… — Nas Copy Share Image
It as to be a swear word beginning with F*** I use it all the time, at work it might be F***… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North… — William Labov Copy Share Image
The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Fun fact: Poop is the only word in the English language that can have its last letter removed and it still means… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.) — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly —… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
“Julius Caesar. His murder is a pivot point for the rest of the action to take place. Other examples?" "Othello," said Amber.… — Haley Walsh Copy Share Image
