Quotes of: English Keyword

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

The English Patient

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.

Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce; and it also doesn’t rhyme with it.

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The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Politics and the English Language

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones, feathers, shells—there is no Deity.

Zen in English Literature & Oriental Classics

When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

Vir Das

There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point of view of the content.

A History of English Literature

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

Rowan Atkinson

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

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

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

Shakira

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

Thomas Erskine

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

Tom Paulin

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.

Keyshawn Johnson

My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.

Lou Doillon