1.
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
2.
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
Denis Johnson
3.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
Elias Canetti
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
John Green
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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