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Rush Hour Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth
William John Bennett Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
English Proverb Many things are lost for want of asking.
English Proverb Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
English Proverb The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb First deserve, and then desire.
English Proverb We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
English Proverb Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.
English Proverb Every path has its puddle.
English Proverb One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls.
English Proverb Never fall out with your bread and butter.
English Proverb He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
English Proverb Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
English Proverb The eyes are the window of the soul.
English Proverb Spread the table and contention will cease.
English Proverb In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.
English Proverb He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.
English Proverb When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
Gordie Howe All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Ronald Reagan The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue. 'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation.
George Mikes Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Muhammad Ali Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 4. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!
Doug Larson If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
English Proverb A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.
Golda Meir I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.
Scott McNealy The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'
Mark Twain There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares
Dorothy L. Sayers The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
Van Wyck Brooks The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.
English Proverb In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
Clarence Darrow Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to
Marilyn Ferguson If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me
English Proverb Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English.
Henry David Thoreau When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
George Gordon Byron The French courage proceeds from vanity ??” the German from phlegm ??” the Turkish from fanaticism & opium ??” the Spanish from pride ??” the English from coolness ??” the Dutch from obstinacy ??” the Russian from insensibility ??” but the Italian from anger.
William Shakespeare Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Arthur Edwin Kennelly through radio I look forward to a united states of the world. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its soc
"WaitThey're dubbing English into English!" -- Tom Servo
"Wait... They're dubbing English into English!" -- Tom Servo
Next time I will try English.
That ain't so good English!
PARDON me, am I speaking ENGLISH?
Sorry, my English is not very good. No punt intended.
The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
"That's a Satanic lie: The Bible was written in English.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
"Ahhhh...Default. The two sweetest words in the English language."
"nlike some other Robin Hoods, I speak with an English accent."
"Unlike some Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."
"We're late for English, which means we're early for lunch!" - Homer
"Many a true word is spoken in jest." -- English Proverb
"Joy!" -Hannah More (1745-1833), English poet, last word
"Superman is for real". -- English Physicists come up with undeniable proof
"You and all your silly English Kuhnnnnnnnn-nigits!" -- French guard
"You don' frighten us, English pig-dogs!" -- French guard
"Bother," said Pooh, as he realized the cabbie didn't understand English
"Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully."
"Bother," said Pooh, as the taxi-driver couldn't speak English
"Hullo" -Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), English poet, last word
I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?
"Do you have a list of all the books written in the English language?"
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!" -- Ralph Wiggum
"English Breakfast" - By Chris P. Bacon And Ann Negg
"The leg, she is fracture," Tom said in broken English. -usenet oracle
"In plain non-Vulcan English, we were lucky." McCoy
"In ENGLISH, Data!?" - Captain Beverly Picard
"I'd like `The Ronettes Sing English Agrarian History', please..."
"I can speak English, I learn it from a booooook." - Manuel
"Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way" -Floyd

 

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