English Language Quotes
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.
The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
