Hard Quote by Roy Clark

I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little…

— Bjarke Ingels

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

— Roy Clark

We had always been huge Anglophiles.

— Russell Mael

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were…

— Ilhan Omar

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing…

— Robert MacNeil

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that…

— Ian Fleming

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

— Susie Dent

“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.”

— Mark Abley

The Bad English thing, everybody was playing at once and it was a big wall of sound.

— John Waite

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the…

— Gene Simmons