E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.”
“English: "Some ‘nonsenses’ are misunderstood meanings."
Česky: „Některé ‚nesmysly‘ jsou nepochopené smysly.”
“English: "Some people are opposed to anything, before they understand what they criticize."
Česky: „Někteří lidé oponují dřív, než pochopí, co kritizují.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English sons were bleeding into the soil of France, and their souls were rising up over the Channel. He could feel them.”
Source: The Red Fields of France: A World War II Novel
“English sounds are hard. Commanding when least intended. "Come." When my mother says the word it is inviting as a honey pastry in a ruffled case.”
Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“English: "Strive for the optimum to fulfill your dreams and reconcile with any outcome."
Česky: „Dělej optimum pro splnění snů a smiřuj se s jakýmkoliv výsledkem.”
“English: "Stupidity consists of limitation, madness of limitlessness, and genius of their balance."
Česky: „Hloupost spočívá v omezenosti, bláznovství v bezmeznosti a genialita v jejich rovnováze.”
“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.”
“English suspenders not American. Could you imagine? Just a pair of knickers and some suspenders. I don't know. How would you wear that? I think this is kind of a cute first date look. A mini sixties Ossie Clark inspired mini dress with a pair on your trotters.”
“English teachers want to see essays written down in black and white , following the rules of grammar and spelling which directly conflicts with the freedom inherent in the act of thinking”
Source: The Artist's Eye: (Learning to See)
“English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.”
“English. That was where I met him.”
Source: Glass Cathedral
“English: "The boundaries between words are not identical to the boundaries of phenomena in the world."
Česky: „Hranice mezi slovy nejsou totožné s hranicemi jevů ve světě.”
“English: "The greatest known freedom is the freest known form of slavery."
Česky: „Největší známá svoboda je nejvolnější známý druh otroctví.”
“English: "The manner of clouding our past interiority is similar to the manner of clouding the interiority of others."
Česky: „Způsob zamlžení našeho minulého nitra se podobá způsobu zamlžení nitra ostatních.”
“English: "There is no truth, only the thoughts of survivors."
Česky: „Neexistuje pravda, jen myšlenky přeživších.”
“English: "Time is a life-giving mistake."
Česky: „Čas je životodárný omyl.”
“English: "To say that a car is not living is similar to saying that an enzyme is not living."
Česky: „Říct, že auto není živé, je podobné, jako říct, že enzym není živý.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.”
“English: "Translation is needed even within what mistakenly appears to us like one language."
Česky: „Překládat je potřeba i v rámci toho, co se nám mylně zdá jako jeden jazyk.”
“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
Source: The SECOND TREE from the CORNER
“English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.”
Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel
“English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.”
“English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.”
“English: "We can't be happy in an unhappy world, so we need to change our surroundings."
Česky: „V nešťastném světě nebudeme šťastní,
tak musíme měnit okolí vlastní.”
“English: "We collaborate on forming of the world that collaborates on forming us, we are the world's face that completes itself."
Česky: „Spoluutváříme svět, který nás spoluutváří,
jsme jeho tváří, která sama sebe dotváří.”
“English: "We emerge as a creation of society, which becomes its co-author."
Česky: „Vznikáme jako výtvor společnosti, který se stane svým spoluautorem.”
“English: "We read novels because we are aware of our loneliness. We read science books because we are aware of our stupidity."
Česky: „Romány čteme, protože si uvědomujeme svou samotu. Odborné knihy čteme, protože si uvědomujeme svou hloupost.”
“English: "When only the tip of the iceberg speaks, it claims that all parts of the ice can float above water."
Česky: „Když mluví jen špička ledovce, tak tvrdí, že všechny části ledu mohou plavat nad vodou.”
“English: "When something does not exist in a way we imagine it, it does not mean the thing doesn't exist at all."
Česky: „To, že něco neexistuje tak, jak si to představujeme, neznamená, že by to neexistovalo vůbec.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Who cannot be understood cannot be controlled."
Česky: „Koho nelze pochopit, toho nelze ovládat.”
“English: "Why an agnostic Russell's teapot? All you need is Musk's car in the Sun's orbit."
Česky: „Nač agnostická Russellova čajová konvice?
Stačí Muskovo auto na oběžné dráze Slunce.”
“English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.”
“English women afraid of the weather might as well be shut up.
[CLARA MIDDLETON]”
Source: The Egoist
“English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.”
Source: Already Dead: A California Gothic
“English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.”
“English:
Ô, take this eager dance you fool,
don’t brandish your stick at me.
I have several reasons to travel on,
on to the endless sea:
I have lost my love. I’ve drunk my purse.
My girl has gone, and left me rags to sleep upon.
These old man’s gloves conceal the hands with which I’ve killed but one!
Francais:
Idiot, prends cette danse ardente, au lieu de tendre ton bâton.
J'en ai des raisons de voyager encore sur la mer infinie:
J'ai perdu l'amour et j'ai bu ma bourse.
Ma belle m'a quitté, j'ai ses haillons pour m'abriter.
Mes gants de vieillard cachent les mains d'un fameux assassin!”
Source: The Basement Trains: A 21st Century Poem
“English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.”
“English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.”
“English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.”
“English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.”
“English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.”
Source: Culture, Language and Personality
“English, our common language, binds our diverse people.”
“English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.”
“English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!”
“Englishmen and Germans are blood brothers, descended from the same stern Woden-worshiping ancestors, blessed with the same rugged virtues, and fired with the same noble ambitions. In a world of diverse and hostile races the joint mission of these virile men is one of union and cooperation with their fellow Teutons in defense of civilization against the onslaughts of all others. There is work to be done by the Teuton. As a unit he must in times to come crush successively the rising power of Slav and Mongolian, preserving for Europe and America the glorious culture that he has evolved.”
“Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.”
“Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.”
Source: Ghost stories
“Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.”
Source: gilt-edged bonds