English Language Quotes

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

Government, Help, Words

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

Language, English, Shortest

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Nothing, Said, Language

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman

Time, Free, Both

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson

Made, Sense, Language

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern

Rain, Everything, Dead

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore

Powerful, Words, Old

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.
John W. Vessey, Jr.

Single, Language, English

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Parents, Country

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Beautiful, Words, Two

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

Give, Fact, Lies

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

Beautiful, Words, Guilty

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Billy Sunday

Language, Walk, English

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'
James Caan

Care, Language, English

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.
Jeffrey Kluger

May, Means, Language

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

Special, Language, Nobody

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
John McCarthy

Beautiful, Between, Word

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume

Word, Language, English

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
Patti Stanger

Mom, Beautiful, Child

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
Jeb Bush

Language, Irish, English

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
Eric Alterman

Forward, Language, English

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.
Stephen Greenblatt

Words, Him, Before

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
John Clayton

Alone, Jesus, Between

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

Trying, Talk, Days

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

Often, Language, English

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
Rick Mercer

Government, Language, English

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.
Lafcadio Hearn

Great, Famous, Made

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg

Love, Laugh, Language

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

Love, Language, English

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.
Michel Hazanavicius

Country, Special, Dream

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