The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, — J.K. Simmons Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language because no other word incites more controversy… — Todd Boyd Copy Share Image
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in… — Donnie Darko Copy Share Image
The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'. — Hal Eaton Copy Share Image
I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most… — Mike Fitzpatrick 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
“Should," I suddenly recal myself saying to Samantha and Miranda, "is the worst word in the English language. People always thing thing… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“I personally have a cunt. Sometimes it's 'flaps' or 'twat', but most of the time, it's my cunt. Cunt is a proper,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“I never suspected you had a sense of humor,” she mused aloud, studying his face as if he were a fascinating puzzle… — Jacquelyn Frank Copy Share Image
“Growing up with well-educated parents and an older sister with her Master’s Degree in English Language and Literature, I was left with… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“He was appalled at the awful intellectual chasm that yawned between him and his people. He could never cross it and explain… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“IN my early days there were stories about funny refugees murdering the English language. A refugee woman goes to the greengrocer to… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Our children learn the phonetic method, which is why they're very good spellers, I suppose. Because rather than ABC or just saying… — Marva Collins Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Don’t be ridiculous.” Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language…and” — Christine Pope Copy Share Image
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly news magazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling,… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses… — Ellen Miller Copy Share Image
