It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with… — Jonathan Lethem 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
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not,… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“Then, Jason looked up and asked, "Do you realized that there are more words for penis in English language then there are… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one who… — David Wong Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career… — Truong Tran Copy Share Image
“When she’s in a courtroom, Wendy Patrick, a deputy district attorney for San Diego, uses some of the roughest words in the… — Mark A. Kellner Copy Share Image
“DECEMBER 3, 1992 No LOL Matter On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world’s first text message, making it a very… — Michael Farquhar Copy Share Image
“Their moral indignation was sometimes feigned, but the Elizabethans’ nearly four hundred references to the Florentine Secretary introduced the derogatory terms ‘Machiavellian’… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“When we were kids, Fitz was unbeatable in Scrabble. It would drive Eric crazy, because he wasn't used to be bested by… — Jodi Picoult 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
“If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
“english is a language which is made up of fun if we dint know english we will miss the fun” — Rubab Abdullah Copy Share Image
“You know what you do? You know how rain takes the colour out of everything? That's what you do to the English… — John Fowles 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
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English… — P J Wingate Copy Share Image
Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.” — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the… — Eddy Peters Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the… — Thomas Sowell 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
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to… — John Astin Copy Share Image
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