English Speakers Quotes

#1. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Douglas Adams

#2. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.

John McWhorter

#3. He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a divergence test

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man.

A. Ashley Straker

#6. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].

Bill Bryson

#7. If there's a proven track record, the odds are higher that success can be repeated. This is what we investors always hope for.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

Anne Rice

#9. My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Levon Helm

#10. Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.

Nina Jacobson

#11. As an actor it's easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself: "Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?" Yet here I am, so I'm lucky.

Chris Pine

#12. Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

Ben Shapiro

#13. The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Anton Chekhov

#14. The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.

James Gleick

#15. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Steven Pinker

#16. 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

#17. The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?

Ann Coulter

#18. Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Frances Beinecke

#19. Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

John McWhorter

#20. To be happy - that's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

#21. What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?

Adam Johnson

#22. Next to love, kindness is the most beautiful thing.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.

Barbara Olson

#24. All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Bernard Pivot

#25. There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

Barbara Ehrenreich

#26. English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

Rabih Alameddine

#27. What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik

James Gleick

#28. Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).

F. Donald Logan

#29. The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.

Bill Bryson

#30. My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

America Ferrera