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
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
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
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
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
“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
“ 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
“During the period of the Renaissance, the English language changed very swiftly in keeping with rapid social, economic and political changes. However,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what… — John Updike 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
