English language Quote by Harry Reasoner Download Open image “Story of the english language” — Harry Reasoner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare English language Language
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand… — Carl Sandburg 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 don't just… — James D. Nicoll Copy Share Image
So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed,… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.... — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by… — Harry Reasoner 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… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
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… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
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… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
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
