“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
“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,” — Jane Green Copy Share Image
The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
“As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the monarch is the defender of the faith—the official religion of the country,… — Sally Bedell Smith Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature.… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“Who said the British empire was gone?! When I travel around the world and see and hear the English language everywhere, I… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift 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
“who can stand toe-to-toe with the best and brightest of the secular world, either in person or online, and swell Catholic hearts… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
“Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it....baseball has served as such a… — Tim Russert Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
