| "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 |
| "basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing." »Wernher von Braun |
| "...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "I speak basic to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself." »Anonymous |
| "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge |
| "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 |
| "Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust." »Zig Ziglar |
| "The english have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Never make fun of someone who speaks broken english. It means they know another language." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "If the english language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." »Doug Larson |
| "If the english language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." »Doug Larson |
| "basic - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous |
| "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett |
| "It was one of those perfect english autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." »P. D. James |
| "english is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Every english poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them." »Robert Graves |
| "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 |
| "Continental people have sex-lives the english have hot-water bottles." »George Mikes |
| "Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the english language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)" »Muhammad Ali |
| "Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson |
| "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "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 |
| "If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." »Hazel Henderson |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "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 |
| "For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal." »John F. Kennedy |
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