English Quotes
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Address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, in Königsberg (8 September 1930). The concluding statement was used as the epitaph on his tomb in Göttingen. Radio broadcast of the address, and transcription and English translation.
David Hilbert
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I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
David Hockney
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Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. But most of the 6,000 or so of the world's languages aren't in such a healthy state.
David Crystal
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Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.
Fisher Ames
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My English is not very good-looking.
Celia Cruz
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This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.
Jacqueline Fernandez
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English people are always surprised I'm English.
Charlie Hunnam
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Ernest Istook
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
Adhir Kalyan
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I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
Cynthia Nixon
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur
