Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the… — Andrea Leadsom 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
I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
The film business is just one of our verticals. We have wanted for some time to make inroads into the English language… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“One of the least meaningful and most overused words in the English language is 'sustainability.' For most Americans, it means something like… — David Owen Copy Share Image
“In the context of the English language, there were many more important words than “in.” There were fancy words, historic words, words… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language."… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
“There were pencil scrawls and ink stains, dried blood, snack crumbs; and the leather binding itself was secured to the lectern by… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
“Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid… — A. Narrator Copy Share Image
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“ schwa : The faint vowel sound in many unstressed syllables in the English language. It is signified by the pronunciation "uh"… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency… — Chigozie Obioma Copy Share Image
Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
While I was a part of the movement Teach For Change, an NGO which focuses on training government primary and high school… — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel,… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The two biggest legacies of the Raj are the unification of India and the English language. Moreover, without the railways, India would… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
Infamous language, you're joking. What language is that? I speak nothing but the fucking english language. That's the only thing I've been… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“They have been taught to labor,” the Chicago Tribune editorialized in 1891. “They have been taught Christian civilization, and to speak the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
