Quotes About English As A Universal Language

#1. Life is so infinitely hard. It involves a thousand tasks all at once. And I am a thousand different people, all fleeing away from the centre.

Matt Haig

#2. -I hate that. I hate that people can't just say what they mean.
-You don't. Not always.
-I never say anything I don't mean. I just avoid saying some things that I do.

Doug Dorst

#3. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

John Madden

#4. If this is foolish, I don't want to be wise.

Cynthia Hand

#5. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Richard Lederer

#6. Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#7. The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

Joseph Roth

#8. Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Enrique Iglesias

#9. Gloaming," Dad said. "What?" "That word I couldn't remember. Gloaming. That short, murky time between half-light and dark.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#10. We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

John Abizaid

#11. Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Lara Fabian

#13. Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)

Arthur E. Kennelly

#14. I'm by no means an opera buff.

Kenneth Branagh

#15. The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions ...

William Osler

#16. English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.

Minae Mizumura

#17. Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.

Arthur Waley

#18. I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

Cesar Millan

#19. The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

John Astin

#20. I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

Rita Ora

#21. In the history of humanity, there have been many languages, including French, that have served as universal languages: Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Yet none of them ever ruled the world the way English does today.

Minae Mizumura

#22. I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.

Shamir

#23. I love a good suit.

Martin Freeman

#24. I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

Ezra Miller