Top 1200 English Grammar Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

I was also in love with the English language.

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

The English are very exotic to me.

I dream of playing in the English league.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

In English every word can be verbed.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.

I learnt English later in life.

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

My mother was a professor of English and History.

I grew up listening to English music.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

I love boys with English accents.

The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

I'd always loved English football.

I'm confident I can be a success in English football.

I was always excited by English football.

I'm obsessed with historical English royalty.

I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

I really like acting in English.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them...and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

Yes, I speak English 'cause I'm American.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

I think speaking English is beautiful.

I've always felt very English.

Oh my God, my English is the worst!

English was always my favorite subject.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

I want to speak better English.

English people have a great sense of humour.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

I learnt French in school and can already speak English.

I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'

English football is really suited to me.