quotes about English Language
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In English every word can be verbed.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'
-- Aziz Ansari -
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
-- Christopher Buckley -
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The English language is nobody's special property.
-- Derek Walcott -
I was also in love with the English language.
-- Dick Schaap -
They had nothing in common but the English language.
-- E. M. Forster -
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
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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.
-- James Fenton -
If only…the saddest words in the English language.
-- Kristan Higgins -
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
-- Raymond ArroyoSource : "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
-- Tonya Hurley -
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
-- Wilfrid Laurier -
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
-- Zoe WanamakerSource : "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.
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I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.
-- Bruno Zheng Wu -