#english language

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? ↗

— Jackson Browne

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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. ↗

— John Clayton

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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

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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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

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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. ↗

— Jeb Bush

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"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? ↗

— George Carlin

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