Top 29 Quotes About Proper English
#1. I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Lee Trevino
#2. In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.
Nhat Hanh
#3. We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.
Spike Lee
#4. I take it you don't question the gods," I muttered. "No, Cora, even you wouldn't question the gods. Our fates were written in the sky the moment we were born." Oh. Wow. "Written in the sky?" I breathed. "Me to you, you to me for all the kingdom to see." Holy crap. Something
Kristen Ashley
#5. What about those who help growth indirectly, those who stay at home and look after others - mothers, carers of elderly parents or sick relatives who save the state millions of pounds annually. What is their worth? How is their value to be determined?
Noreena Hertz
#6. If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
Hilaire Belloc
#7. HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ...
George Bernard Shaw
#8. Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.
Josh Lanyon
#9. I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on
Lauren Graham
#10. If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
Theresa May
#13. I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu ... she bid me a don't.
Rodney Dangerfield
#14. The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.
Vinnie Jones
#15. I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God!
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#16. I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up ... "
Sandra Cisneros
#17. One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.
Dan Brown
#18. We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
Doris Lessing
#19. Sometimes crazy just isn't enough.
Dr. Seuss
#21. Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.
Concha Buika
#22. You cannot sing African music in proper English
Fela Kuti
#23. It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.
Robert A. Heinlein
#24. When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.
Arika Okrent
#25. I'm saying it isn't a matter of stoping the clock, but of making it run backward. And for that, the clock will need to be broken.
Cassandra Clare
#26. At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media ... I went and did an English degree.
Sharon Horgan
#27. Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.
J.R. Ward
#28. I used to have a pony but I outgrew it and I do dream that one day I will live in the country and have lots of horses and be like a proper English lady who goes hunting and everything.
Georgia Jagger
#29. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Laura Dern
