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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging… — Lynn Abbey
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf… — William Saroyan
In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion… — Bill Bryson
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write… — Eric Partridge
Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales. — Ron Greenwood
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first… — Cristiano Ronaldo
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. — D. H. Lawrence
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno
What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse — Unknown Author
The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response — Nathan Rosenberg
What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh? — Dorothy L. Sayers
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal… — Arthur E. Kennelly
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant… — Barack Obama
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin?… — Peter Kreeft
English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas. — Unknown Author
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. — Bertrand Russell
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the… — Ronald Reagan
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition… — Thomas Jefferson
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare… — Thomas Paine

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