Broken Quote by Elliott Colla

In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive…

— Elliott Colla

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the…

— Louise Erdrich

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

— John Walker Lindh

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

English is a very expressive language.

— Ken Watanabe

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

— John Abizaid

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms…

— Guy Pearce

English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.

— Shehnaaz Gill

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

— John Abizaid

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll