I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the… — Bob Garfield Copy Share Image
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“In 1957, a young lieutenant in the Swedish Air Force named Bjorn Nyberg decided, somewhat inexplicably, that the surest means to improve his… — Jon Peterson Copy Share Image
“I can't pretend like it never happened" I told her. "You shouldn't - you should never forget. But part of surviving is… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe...… — Ornella Muti Copy Share Image
“Jefferson is now remembered as the author of one of the English language’s most timeless passages, “We hold these truths to be… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“My mate died today,” said Constant. “Sorry,” said Salo. “I would say, ‘Is there anything I can do?’—but Skip once told me… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
“The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
President George W. Bush was kind of a goofy tongue-tied dude. Mostly he just mangled the English language. Barack Obama, by contrast,… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
“How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love,… — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
