The English Quotes
The English Quote of the day
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.
In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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 languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.
There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.
A lot of people don't know enough about me. When I meet people who freak out about Game of Thrones, they don't even know that I can speak English.
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
