Top 1200 Modern English Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth!

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

In English every word can be verbed.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written

I have a huge man-crush on Aiden English.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

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

They had nothing in common but the English language.

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I have English blood running through my veins!

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

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.

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

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

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

I want to speak better English.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

I learnt French in school and can already speak English.

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.

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of large government and social benefits and everything and that's against what is my position, because I think that the ultimate vision of Marx, Engels, and those people was to eliminate government entities and to give as much power to the people. And in modern standing that means direct democracy, that means all the power to the communities, it means gradually eliminating all government oppression on the society. And 100 years ago, leftists' major allies were labor unions.

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

Arsene Wenger is a legend in the English game.

The English contribution to world cuisine: the chip.

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

English football is really suited to me.

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

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

The English teams are very difficult to face.

My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

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

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

Dickens belongs to the English people.

I grew up listening to English music.

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

English music is white - it evades everything.

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

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

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

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

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 language is not always the President's friend.

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.