Famous quotes containing the words english, language and/or paper:
“Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.”
—Dodie Smith, and Lewis Allen. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland)