English language Quote by Doug Larsen Download Open image ““If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.”” — Doug Larsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare English language
“I've never understood the appeal of fur nor how it became such a status symbol. "Look at me and my financial ability to wear… — Crystal Cestari Copy Share Image
“A cat may look at a king, but he might also lose a bit of fur for it.” — Margaret Miles Copy Share Image
“Humans wore skin and clothes— many clothes instead of fur. Would have been smarter to grow fur, but humans were never smart.” — Faith Hunter Copy Share Image
“What’s furry, has four legs, and meows? My dinner, before I killed and cooked it.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“My fur coat is still wet, not from the rain, but from where my cat was licking it. Well, my future fur coat. I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“FURIES: Over the beast doomed to the fire this is the chant, scatter of wits, frenzy and fear, hurting the heart, song of the… — Richard Lattimore Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“(’No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.’)” — Jonathan Glover Copy Share Image
There's nothing like having a grandchild to restore faith to heredity. — Doug Larsen 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 while actually… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors of dangerous lapses into mythical thinking. All were men of critical temper, haters of the decadence of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you were not going to budge, whether expressing an opinion or an intention. It was a statement, not a question, and the only word in the English language to which it was pointless to respond. If you… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is the final test for any written piece... Do not neglect your sense of hearing in the process of writing and reading. As a longtime teacher of English as a foreign language, I can tell you on… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the… — Gary Anderson Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image