Top 1200 English Grammar Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

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

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

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

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

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

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

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

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

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

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

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

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

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

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

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

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

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

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.