Quotes of: English-language Keyword

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning...

The Space Race

There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, bl...

Where I End and You Begin

Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and condi...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan) Swift's anger. Instead, he hoped the example of his dictionary would temper that change by prov...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Great music does not just make you feel good; great ...

Peter Kreeft

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result ...

N. Scott Momaday

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technol...

Toba Beta

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

The Complete English Poems

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

The English Patient

Informative and understandable, even for non-techies like me...

Sol English Writing in Mexico: A Literary Magazine

Where’s our teacher?” “Probably getting it on with the English teacher.” - Alex Gold and Mike Wilson

R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Sofia Vergara

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Kenneth Baker

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Isabel Allende

Katharine Clifton: Do you think you are the only one who feels anything?

The English Patient

Caravaggio: Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed.

The English Patient

Muller: You are a Canadian spy working for the Allies. Code-name Moose.

The English Patient

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

Love

Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.

Russian

When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore - he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroq...

Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without

I'm online, therefore I am.

China Simplified: Language Gymnastics: A springboard into Chinese culture