Quotes 121 till 140 of 234.
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
Filling Up the Hump -
Speaking one language only is a prison.
Black Swan Green (2008) 153 -
Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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That could be solved, Siri said, Perhaps it would help if you refrained from speaking when others are present. I think I should find you quite amiable in those circumstances.
Warbreaker (2009) -
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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