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| Citat | Vem |
|---|---|
| Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that despite all the progress that has been made in the past 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. | Dave Barry |
| Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? | Dean Koontz |
| England and America are two countries separated by the same language. | George Bernard Shaw |
| English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge. | Douglas Coupland |
| English is the language of a people who have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next. | Paul Scott |
| I came here and realized how truly limited my English was and it was very scary. I soon realized it wasn't going to be hard to learn - it was going to be nearly impossible. | Salma Hayek |
| I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. | Mark Twain |
| I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. | George Bernard Shaw |
| I learned English by going to America and marrying an Englishman who didn't speak French. That helped. | Catherine Deneuve |
| I was trying to learn English and I was very worried about my accent. I'm sure I'll always have it but I remember Tom Hanks said to me, "Don't lose the accent. If you do, you're lost." | Antonio Banderas |
| Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. | Rita Mae Brown |
| My spelling is wobbly. It is good spelling, but it wobbles and the letters get in the wrong places. | A. A. Milne |
| Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. | Johnathan Ames |
| Some of the subtance of English words I just don't understand at all because the culture is so strange to me. | Yun-Fat Chow |
| Speaking English is like a tongue-twister for me. I can speak each word perfectly, but then you have to string them together, like "Blah, blah, blah." That's when I get crazy. | Jackie Chan |
| Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. | Henry James |
| The barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or, to put the thing less cynically, we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice. | E. M. Forster |
| The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. | Stephen Fry |
| 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! | Mark Twain |
| They had nothing in common but the English language. | E. M. Forster |
| To me it is very important to understand the nature of English and how it works. | Shakira |
| To understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. | Aleister Crowley |
| What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language? | Jarod Kintz |
| When I first came to America I made a lot of mistakes, like going to the hair salon and asking for a blow job instead of a blow dry. | Penelope Cruz |
| With hard work, learning English, and getting involved, there is no limit on what you can achieve. | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall. | Joseph Conrad |