Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak… — Amish Tripathi 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
“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I’d rather dirty up. ” — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
“If only. -- You got to admit, standing alone those words are pretty awful, but married together like that, they must be… — Lesley Kagen Copy Share Image
“You must know in what way you are going to use the morphology and syntax to build your 'how” — Frederick Vanderbuilt Copy Share Image
We need to look at it as every school needs to be experts in how to teach the English language and understand… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
After 'Othello,' it was, like, 'I can stop acting. I have played one of the great characters in the English language. I… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
When am I gonna understand and accept the fact that its over? O-V-E-R, its just a simple word that's so hard to… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I love vocal music, but I've had a hard time understanding myself through the English language. So it just seemed to me… — Arca Copy Share Image
“Forever is the most dizzying word in the English language. The idea of staying in one place forever was like standing at… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy 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
“item 5. It is also beyond the scope of the Standards to define the full range of supports appropriate for English language… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and the rest had waged against armed knights to win a kingdom,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lady Emily’s maid had come to her many years ago as Amélie Conque, but the assimilative genius of the English language, Mr… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“tests are constructed and normed on native English speakers and may not provide valid inferences about the achievement of English Language Learners.… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: "Shall we go… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of using the English language in a way that will achieve the greatest clarity and strength.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as… — Abbie Hoffman 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
“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The English language has many truly spectacular words, but every once in a while you find someone and the only words you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is so important. It has been said that the three most important words in the English language are “remember, remember, remember.” — Carl Richards Copy Share Image
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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