Useful English Quotes

#1. Dishwasher safe, debit only, Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought.

Sorin Suciu

#2. There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

Charles Grandison Finney

#3. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Kapil Dev

#4. First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

Anne Rice

#5. GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

Neal Stephenson

#6. We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Edward Young

#7. What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

S. Kelley Harrell

#8. That day, at that hour, there took place in her heart a complete severance from all her old life, and a quite different, new, utterly strange life had begun for her,

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The curtain has just come down on childhood

Mitch Albom

#10. Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian) (Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.) And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.

Errol Morris

#13. It occurs to Blanche that English doesn't have French's useful distinction between libre, meaning that something's unconstrained, and gratuit, meaning that it costs nothing. Free thought, free speech, free love: the English word that Arthur was so fond of obscures the price of things.

Emma Donoghue

#14. Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#15. Revel in your freedom. Live wholeheartedly, laugh loud, love much, spread joy, be truthful, and give yourself to everything. You, who are already whole, can lose nothing. Your ego may fall from time to time, but you will not. Live big!

Robert Holden

#16. It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Phyllis Bentley

#17. Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Richard Rohr

#18. A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.

Ray A. Davis