523 Quotes About English


  • Author Roger Dearing
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    It's tough when you work with a kid six hours a day and the other 18 hours, no English is spoken at the home. What kind of progress can you make?

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  • Author Barry Eisler
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    I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

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  • Author Thomas Erskine
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    Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure

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  • Author Flea
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    Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

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  • Author James Fenton
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    The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

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  • Author Luis Fortuno
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    Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.

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  • Author Robert Fitzgerald
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    The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

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