#english language

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#eighth #english #english language #just #language

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#any #beyond #coming #could #country

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ↗

— Doug Larson

#english #english language #flowers #language #made

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ↗

— John McCarthy

#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

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. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#both #deceptive #english #english language #half