| "Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth" »Rush Hour |
| "Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett |
| "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." »Robert Benchley |
| "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." »Doug Larson |
| "If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." »Doug Larson |
| "Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." »P. D. James |
| "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them." »Robert Graves |
| "Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles." »George Mikes |
| "English is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)" »Muhammad Ali |
| "I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war." »Golda Meir |
| "There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares" »Mark Twain |
| "The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible." »Van Wyck Brooks |
| "The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee |
| "The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| "When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler |
| "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me" »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to" »Clarence Darrow |
| "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." »William Shakespeare |
| "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." »Carl Sagan |
| "Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language." »Henry James |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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