Top 1200 English Grammar Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It's hard for me to perform in English.

The English as a race are not worth saving!

It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our case, nobody has taken the trouble of writing down the grammar; we get it as a baby does from parents, by imitation of others. Some mathematicians have a good ear; some not (and some prefer the slangy expressions such as 'iff'). That's life.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

I think my English is bad.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

My master's degree was in English literature.

The English think soap is civilization.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

I can speak English, Hindi and Bangla.

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

I am fascinated by English football.

I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

If I was English I'd kill myself

I'm sorry, I don't speak English.

English is my third language.

I'm rarely singing in English.

The Spanish and the English leagues are the strongest.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words. ... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

I'm too tired to speak in English.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

I like English football a lot.

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

I'm not very good at standard English.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

The world doesn't revolve around English.

The level of English teams is high.

My heritage is English, so I'm proud to be back here.

English literature is a flying fish.

English is my last language.

My dad was an English professor.

English is not my first language.

I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

I read good. I was an English major.

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

My English is not very good-looking.

English is a very expressive language.

It's good to be around an English manager.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

The English fan is educated.

She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So don't get mad and dis her reputation Callin' her a floozy, any conversation. Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her. But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!

English was my worst subject in school.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.