Guy1: Did you know that sugar is the only word in the English language that the su makes a sh sound? Guy2:… — Sheryne Brooks Copy Share Image
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. — John Clayton Copy Share Image
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough Copy Share Image
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word ‘moisture’ or even ‘moist’ from the English language; I really hated… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that… — John McGahern 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
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We… — James D. Nicoll 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
Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“ Hey --if you guys are goin’ to the movie, c-c-c-can you drive me to the mall?” he yelled. “Sure, Mike,” Marlboro… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing.… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One 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
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia. — Larry King 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
It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Dare I own an example of the impossible becomes possible to earn the seventh class man (do not know the English language)today… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English… — John W. Vessey, Jr Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think it’s peculiar that the English language only has one word to encompass so many different feelings?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Dag insists that all dogs secretly speak the English language and subscribe to the morals and beliefs of the Unitarian church...” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
