Quotes 61 till 80 of 150.
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
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My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo -
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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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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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
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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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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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