57 English Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan

Government Words Language Most Terrifying Help English English Language Here

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? George Carlin

Language Could Longest Am Sentence Shortest English English Language

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You People Language Will Argument Aggressive Say Touch More Could Know Welcomed Make Accept Gentle How Than Influence Want Them Much Use Your English English Language Suggestions

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig

Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. Louis D. Brandeis

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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott

Property Language Imagination Nobody Itself Special English English Language

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. Frances McDormand

You Word Language Parents Lose Spouse Left Child Place Your English English Language Orphan Widow Position

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. Maxim Gorky

Beautiful Words Most Beautiful Language Guilty Most Beautiful Words Not Guilty English English Language

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. Richard Lederer

Good History Language Way Latin Critical Critical Mass Vocabulary More Caesar Mass Most Because Makes Julius Julius Caesar Than Certain English English Language Universal Universal Language

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. Andrzej Wajda

Entertainment World Cinema Language France Entertainment Industry Case Simply Global Opens Industry Because Does Equivalent Coming Exist Italy American English English Language Whole Why

It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct. Charles T. Canady

Constitution Language Duty President Guilty Misconduct Entrusted Him Does Official Not Guilty English Who English Language Assert Violated Violence

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows. Chris Pine

Life Dangerous Word Language Responsibility Think Case Demand Implies Most Done Just Which Should English English Language Flows

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. Clay Shirky

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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. Dick Schaap

Game Language Clever Hook Intrigue Gifts Observant Leads New Reader Came Up Being Stories English English Language Many Using

I was also in love with the English language. Dick Schaap

Love Language Also English English Language

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. F. Murray Abraham

I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that. Harold Pinter

Love Time Me School Language Seriously Few Drama Latin Restless Only Fed Fed Up Studying Schools Mostly Tied Go Left Up Sixteen The Only Thing Literature Interested English English Language Thing University

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is. Howard Jacobson

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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

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? Jackson Browne

Language Say Would Would-Be Parked Outside Like Least Heard Banjo Often Sentence English English Language Porsche Player

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else. Jamaica Kincaid

Life Language Will My Life Become Nothing Else Distortion Out One Of The Things Something Something Else Remains Normal Same Just Happen Turn English English Language Now Things Started

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. James Thurber

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