Quotes tagged ‘english’

“[Coroner #2 puts Worcestershire sauce on a hot dog] Coroner #1: Marty, do you have to put that stuff on everything? Coroner #2: I don't know, it just—it just makes everything taste so English.”

— Philip Stark, Matt Stone, Coroner #2, Trey Parker, imdb.com

“It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“As I was writing the concluding line of the preceding page last evening (about I o'clock) an ill-looking fellow opened my door without knocking, and muttering in German something which I did not comprehend, bid me put out my candle. Being in no very placid humor at the moment, as you see, I cursed h…”

— Aaron Burr, archive.org

“Four years in England had filled Obi with a longing to be back in Umuofia. This feeling was sometimes so strong that he found himself feeling ashamed of studying English for his degree. He spoke Ibo whenever he had the least opportunity of doing so. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to find ano…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He sh…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The reason it was nicknamed ginga was that normally, when we'd play against a European team—now it's changed a bit—but back then, the European teams were very tough and physical. They were big, and defensively solid. Even the English, who invented football, were like that starting out. There were so…”

— Pele, esquire.com

“I think it’s important for people to have their own sense of style—a personal style. I think there are certain rules, especially when you’re English, because you’re brought up on ‘this is how a gentleman should dress.’ If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford it, you can go to Savile Row and have…”

— David Beckham, mrporter.com

“Millennials are 'breaking the constraints' of written English to 'be as expressive as you can be in spoken language.'”

— Rachel Thompson, mashable.com

“"I gotta have a swamp too. Gotta have a swamp. Either a Swamp, our a marsh full of marshmallows. MARSHmallows"”

— Dane Cook, genius.com

“We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.”

— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, nytimes.com

“I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.”

— Daniel Tosh, amazon.com

“Oh her. She steals from me. Steals my money. She says she doesn't speak English. My ass she doesn't speak English. Plays that freakin’ voodoo music, tries to hypnotize me. She thinks she's gonna turn me into a zombie and then rob me blind. Well, I wasn't born yesterday. I may drop dead today, but I…”

— Larry Charles, Sid, Bill Erwin, imdb.com

“It was a weird school day, you know what I mean because it kind of like started off kind of normal. You have like English, Geometry, Social Studies and then suddenly you're like in 'Lord of The Flies' for 40 minutes you know you're hangin' from a rope. You have hardly any clothes on. Teachers are ye…”

— Larry Charles, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“My head says English, my heart, Russian, my ear, French.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, lib.ru

“My mother died two weeks ago and my son hasn’t attended English classes since. I think he’s missing gramma.”

— johnnykitd, reddit.com

“Suffixes and prefixes (called affixes when you are talking about them together) can't stand alone, there have to be other words (often called root words, that do stand alone to which the affixes can be added.”

— Sharon Berry Dominguez, quora.com

“This tweet was brought to you by our shared belief in human language.”

— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com

“I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ve got great news. The bad news is that I don’t know what adjectives are.”

— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com