523 Quotes About English

...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.

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.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.

विपद: सन्तु ता: शश्वत्तत्र तत्र जगद्गुरो।भवतो दर्शनं यत्स्यादपुनर्भवदर्शनम्॥८॥Master of Universe I pray for calamities, So I do remember You ever constantly,Remembering You means freedom be, From cycle of births and death finally. - 201 -

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She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that the two languages did not carry equal weight.

Shani Chalisa॥दोहा॥ Dohaजय-जय श्री शनिदेव प्रभु, सुनहु विनय महराज।करहुं कृपा हे रवि तनय, राखहु जन की लाज॥Shani Maharaj, glory to you with sincerity,Listen to my prayers I request humbly,Bestow your grace and protect me fully,Keep respect and honour of your devotees.- 341 -

Dishwasher safe, debit only,” Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought.