Non English Quotes
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Non English Quotes & Sayings
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Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes
— Grabe
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
— Mark Twain
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
— G. Willow Wilson
I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.
— Louis Menand
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
— Paul Krassner
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.
— Bill Bryson
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.
— Simone Muench
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.
— Elizabeth Wein
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje
Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?
— Mary Rose O'Reilley
Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].
— Michael Gordin
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
— Idris Elba
Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats
— Honore De Balzac
I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
— Charisma Carpenter
But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.
— Aleister Crowley
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
— Sarah Bernhardt
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
— William Bennett
English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
— Prince Royce
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
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
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.
My master's degree was in English literature.
— Sylvia Browne
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
— Olivia Hussey
Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
— Geraldine Brooks
His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft.
— Peter Smith
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
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
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.
— Raj Thackeray
Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools
— Michael Pitre
Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.
— Adam Cooper
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
— James Hunter
He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors.
— Terry Pratchett
I was an English major.
— Jenna Bush