Top 1200 Broken English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I do to my English-speaking friends - you know, I'll pronounce 'McDonald's' differently, because it feels right, and that's what I'm used to.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'

Like a broken vase does not fear of breaking once more, my broken heart is not affected by your hurting words anymore!

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

'Broken' is a story of two broken people coming together. I think every one of us can associate with it, as we all have faced a heartbreak sometime in our life.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

When people come to see you, they know what you do. That's what they want. They want it to be quite English; they don't want to watch an English bloke trying to fit in. They want it to be quintessentially English in the way that Ricky Gervais is rude to people at the Golden Globes.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

Records are made to be broken. It's great when they are broken by attacking players.

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.