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  • English is not my first language. -- Zhu Zhu
  • I speak two languages, Body and English. -- Mae West
  • I was also in love with the English language. -- Dick Schaap
  • The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. -- Maxim Gorky
  • Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley
  • My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' -- James Caan
  • Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. -- John Clayton
  • Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. -- Sophie Marceau
  • I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. -- Diane Wakoski
  • I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. -- Dan Fogelberg
  • If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. -- John Hume
  • English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. -- Ernest Istook
  • In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. -- Alan Perlis
  • Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. -- Christopher Moore
  • I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. -- Bill Gates
  • Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. -- Christopher Walken
  • Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. -- William Bennett
  • My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language. -- Judah Friedlander
  • English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. -- James Fenton
  • Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. -- Daniel Dennett
  • Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable. -- Kenneth R. Miller
  • This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. -- William Irwin Thompson
  • Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. -- Donald Johanson
  • The very large brain that humans have, plus the things that go along with it - language, art, science - seemed to have evolved only once. The eye, by contrast, independently evolved 40 times. So, if you were to 'replay' evolution, the eye would almost certainly appear again, whereas the big brain probably wouldn't. -- Richard Dawkins
  • The English language is nobody's special property. -- Derek Walcott
  • English is the easiest language to speak badly. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Regret; The saddest word in the English language. -- Tonya Hurley
  • English, our common language, binds our diverse people. -- S. I. Hayakawa
  • The English language is not always the President's friend. -- George Will
  • If onlyâ?¦the saddest words in the English language. -- Kristan Higgins
  • English is a stretch language; one size fits all. -- William Safire
  • English is my second language. Laughter is my first. -- Paul Krassner
  • Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. -- Robert E. Lee
  • They had nothing in common but the English language. -- E. M. Forster
  • The most important word in the English language is hope. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language. -- Erich Fromm
  • I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. -- Roald Hoffmann
  • Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. -- Bill Cosby
  • I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. -- Per Petterson
  • English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots. -- Salman Rushdie
  • There is the English language and then there's the Trump language. -- David Brooks
  • Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. -- Christopher Buckley
  • French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. -- Meg Cabot
  • I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. -- Beth Revis
  • The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. -- Jonathan Culver
  • Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point? -- Tucker Carlson
  • The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'. -- Philip Wollen
  • When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. -- Billy Sunday
  • Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. -- Andy Rooney
  • Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. -- Kshitij Shringi
  • The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. -- David Tang
  • The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. -- Judy Woodruff
  • Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. -- Jonathan Ames
  • When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. -- Sarah MacLean
  • It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. -- Martin Amis
  • I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. -- Jack Prelutsky
  • Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language. -- Hemant Mehta
  • The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language. -- George W. Bush
  • There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, -- J. K. Simmons
  • I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language. -- Sally Potter
  • English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. -- Vaclav Havel
  • English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it -- Werner Herzog
  • The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. -- Joss Whedon
  • Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. -- Alan Siegel
  • Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. -- Wendy Alexander
  • The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. -- Wilfrid Laurier
  • Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. -- Raymond Williams
  • I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language. -- Sergio Leone
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  • The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of -- William Carlos Williams
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  • Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. -- John Oliver
  • ...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife. -- Lanier Ivester
  • The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary -- Dave Kellett
  • Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? -- Erica Jong
  • It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language. -- Ethan Hawke
  • Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word -- Frank Bough
  • I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. -- Daniel Alarcon
  • Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. -- George Mikes
  • [My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English. -- Mother Teresa
  • I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. -- Maya Angelou
  • The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. -- Pat Conroy
  • ... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'. -- Austin Grossman
  • I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language. -- Odette Annable
  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. -- Timothy Leary
  • The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' -- Woody Allen
  • No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say. -- Raymond Arroyo
  • The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. -- Howard Tomb
  • The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. -- George Will
  • As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. -- Albert J. Nock
  • If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. -- Doug Larson
  • Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' -- John Oliver
  • I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. -- Rita Mae Brown
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  • If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. -- Chath Piersath
  • The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -- Ronald Reagan
  • I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that. -- Bruno Zheng Wu
  • However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong. -- William Monahan
  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. -- Edward Gibbon
  • The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. -- Robert Burchfield
  • I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -- Henry James
  • I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. -- Zoe Wanamaker
  • The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan
  • These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. -- Henry Ford
  • It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. -- Billy Collins
  • I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. -- Eiza Gonzalez
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