Pidgin English Quotes

#1. Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing.

Peaches Geldof

#2. Hermann Buhl with K2. First

James M. Tabor

#3. Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was a girl, so as to be more knowledgeable on the subject, he said, 'Don't you realize that at this moment you know more about prehistoric pottery than any woman in England?'

Agatha Christie

#4. Pidgin, pidgin everywhere. A peculiarity of dropping the connective, the article, of translating literally, of using present for past, present for future. We Filipinos did not speak pidgin. Our English was straight from the grammar texts.

Gilda Cordero-Fernando

#5. Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step; take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

Ray Bradbury

#7. she always chose peace over truth,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

Muhammad Yunus

#9. I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

Bruce Babbitt

#10. the smile you give is the smile you get back.

Goldie Hawn

#11. I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Freddie Mercury

#12. ...in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

Winston Graham

#13. I want to be a vehicle to help people connect the dots that let them make their lives healthier, happier, more beautiful, and more fun.

Daphne Oz

#14. You can judge a man by the books in his library.

Mark Skousen

#15. Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!

William Shakespeare

#16. Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft.

Dinesh D'Souza

#17. I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

John Gallagher Jr.

#18. I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

H. G. Bissinger