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When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.


Sarah MacLean
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.


Ronald Reagan
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
Zoe Wanamaker
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There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
Matt Haig
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I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
Shakuntala Devi
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
Rick Mercer
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.
John Cornyn
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
William Labov
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
Peter Ackroyd
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern
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I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.


Per Petterson
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If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.


Leon Redbone
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When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.
Michel Faber
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.
Alan Arkin
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I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.


Deion Sanders
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Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.


Winston Churchill
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.


Ramakrishna
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