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Could there be three other words in the English language more effective at striking terror deep within the heart than Got a minute? — Meg Cabot

What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly. — Chris Cleave

I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy. — Sarah Vowell

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed. — Dorothy Parker

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. — Arsene Wenger

If only ... the saddest words in the English language. — Kristan Higgins

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

The two more useless words in the English language - Don't worry. — Mary Higgins Clark

If only," repeated Rick with a shake of his head. "Those are two words in the English language that we regret saying the most. — Linda Weaver Clarke

Yeah, whatever," I said finally, the two most unpoetic words in the English language. — Emma Scott

Charlie cursed in English as there are no really good Navajo curse words. — R. Allen Chappell

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.' — Carol Tavris

Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful. — Mark Forsyth

My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new. — Timothy Leary

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. — Beth Revis

'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' — Sarah Palin

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. — Raymond Williams

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. — Bernard Pivot

I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language. — Andrea Boeshaar

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me. — Harvey MacKay

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 — William Shakespeare

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. — Laurie Anderson

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. — David Tang

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify'). — Randi Minetor

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland. — Larry Trask

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used. — Freya Stark

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, — J.K. Simmons

douleur, one of the many French words that do not translate into English well, which means "the pain of wanting someone you cannot have. — Martha Hall Kelly

He repeated the words dutifully, and then put together his very first sentence in elegant King's English. "Cut...fuck...Bil-lee. — Mark Wildyr

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

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? — Dean Koontz

If there are three words in the English language worse than "Got a minute?" they can only be "About last night ... — Meg Cabot

The First Amendment ... begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. — George Will

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker

The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'. — Woody Allen

Okay, there is no possible combination of English words that would form a dumber plan than that. — David Wong

Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice. — Megha Khare

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. — Wendy Alexander

There are many words in the English language that you never want to hear you father say. Enema. Orgasm. Disappointed. — Lauren Oliver

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them. — Jack London

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language. — Hemant Mehta

- I probably shouldn't tell you this, I said.
- Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in the English language. — Amor Towles

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words! — Laura K. Lawless

I didn't understand him. I mean, he was speaking English, and I understood the words, but I was confused. "What do you mean? What are you doing? — Gayla Twist

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either! — Lewis Carroll

I will say that as far as I know, only in English are the words "self" and "conscious" put together to mean something bad. My — Elliott James

Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied. — Anne Carson

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? — Jennifer Flackett

God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that? — Kristan Higgins

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY. — Vicki Baum

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. — John Green

We build our futures together, in the words we exchange today. — Sherwood Fleming

I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, — Jane Green

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. — Carl Sandburg

The four sweetest words in the English language - 'You wore me down.' — Aziz Ansari

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words. — Mark Twain

English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. — Anthony Burgess

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas! — Lydia Davis

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' — John Oliver

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti

Five of the most exciting words in the English language: "What shall I read next? — Jason Erik Lundberg

The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story. — Pat Conroy

I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man. — Santosh Kalwar

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — John Templeton

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language — Clotye Murdock Larsson

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. — Anonymous

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. — Chow Yun-Fat

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage. — Kasie West

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing. — Bernard Goldberg

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson

I had to settle for two of the most inadequate words in the English language, words to pale to express what I needed to say. Thank you. — Lilith Saintcrow

Yeah. Calm down. Two of the most useless words in the English language. — Lili St. Crow

The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It — David Crystal

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. — Laura Fraser

Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End — Ken Scott

If only ... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only. — Douglas Clegg

There are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife. — Lanier Ivester

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. — Jodi Picoult

The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt. — Joseph O'Connor

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense. — Cassandra Clare

Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things. — Alex Shvartsman

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris

Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man? — Henry David Thoreau

[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'. — Roberta Pearce

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. — Evan Daugherty