At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not… — Janisse Ray Copy Share Image
I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
“It is Mother’s Day. Those ought to be two of the most beautiful words in the English language. They should cause kids… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston 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
In the English language the word lust has a very bad and unfounded reputation. Although, (in reality) this wonderful cerebral cortex induced… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“No more peeping through keyholes! No more mas turbating in the dark! No more public confessions! Unscrew the doors from their jambs!… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Ah, but it wasn’t just her lovely face that haunted him. Nor the soft, lush body he was increasingly desperate to see… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“I suppose you heard him yelling as the doctor set his leg." "I never knew there were so many rude words in… — Karen Hawkins 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
“secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction… — Terry Marselle 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
If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“Left identitarians who think of themselves as radical creatures, contesting this and transgressing that, have become like buttoned-up Protestant schoolmarms when it… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
