English Words Quotes

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Communication, Inspiration

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• The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If one is great and full, one is God. And whenever smallness faces you, you should be great, and full-full of that greatness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Grateful

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• When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.

  Madeline Miller

  Roots, Greek, Vision

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• The most striking difference between little ones and grownups is that little ones cannot worry, and they cannot worry because they have no past and no future. They live only in the present moment. Just watch children. If they play, they play and don't even hear us call them and don't notice anything that is going on around them. If they eat, they eat; if they sleep, they sleep. There is a beautiful English word which describes how they do whatever they do, they do it 'whole-heartedly', whereas grownups always are half-hearted.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Children, Sleep

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• I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Speak English, People, Littles

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There was an agitation against Mumbai Express: because part of it is an English word. There is no Tamil word for Mumbai Express. I am sure all those who were against it, even they wouldn't say 'I love you' to their lovers in Tamil. Many don't even thank in Tamil.

  Kamal Haasan

  Love You, Agitation, Mumbai

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• The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Perfectly Good, Editors

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• English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

  Denis Johnson

  Rainbow, Empty, Prisms

  Denis Johnson (2003). “Already Dead: A California Gothic”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Religious, Military, Order

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• I believe our Heavenly Father’s everlasting purpose for His children is generally achieved by the small and simple things we do for one another. At the heart of the English word ‘atonement’ is the word ‘one.’ If all mankind understood this, there would never be anyone with whom we would not be concerned, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, or social or economic standing. We would strive to emulate the Savior and would never be unkind, indifferent, disrespectful, or insensitive to others.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Children, Father, Believe

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• Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

  Chow Yun-Fat

  Substance, Culture, Strange

  "'Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". TIME Asia interview, www.cnn.com. December 27, 1999.

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• Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, Doe, Sociopath

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.41, Penguin

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• Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Meaningful, Silly

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I see my position in that whole Dior construction very differently from my own brand. My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

  Raf Simons

  Fall, Dior, Construction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.

  Li Cunxin

  Book, Reading, Vocabulary

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

  Annie Dillard

  Country, Real, Names

  Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins

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• Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

  Arsene Wenger

  Play, Doe, World

  Arsene Wenger's statement on April 19, 1997, as quoted in David Manson "Quotations from the Public Comments of Arsene Wenger: Manager, Arsenal Football Club", June 9, 2005.

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• Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Marriage, Memories, Writing

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• The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Thinking, Roots

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.228, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.

  Karen Kingston

  Mean, Energy, Middle

  Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.11, Harmony

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• I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

  Lydia Davis

  Dream, Fun, Peas

  Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

  Elias Canetti

  Language, Concentration, Knows

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