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English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Robert A. Heinlein
english-language nervous defining
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. by Robert E. Lee

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Robert E. Lee
english-language duty language
English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots... by Salman Rushdie

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Salman Rushdie
english-language language roots
An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to sa... by Samuel Johnson

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Samuel Johnson
englishmen english-language language
Regret; The saddest word in the English language. by Tonya Hurley

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

Tonya Hurley
english-language regret language
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as... by Wilfrid Laurier

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Wilfrid Laurier
english-language divinity language

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

Zoe Wanamaker
english-language taught language
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of... by Sarah MacLean

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

Sarah MacLean
english-language language bears love

The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the BBC to ruin the English language.' Naturally I felt terrible, as I had no idea either that it was happening or that I was responsible.

Sandi Toksvig
woman day english-language language

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Robin Marantz Henig
words english-language shade language

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Jack Ramsay
word english-language devil language

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
understand english-language language

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

John McCarthy
english-language language beautiful

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

John Clayton
alone english-language language jesus

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.

Jean Hanff Korelitz
english english-language language dog

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
fact english-language language strong

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.

Patrick Rothfuss
how english-language effort language

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
know you english-language language

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Park Chan-wook
own english-language my-own language

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

Elif Safak
me english-language language mother
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