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en American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm
  Stephen King

en He's a grammar fanatic. He has a grammar fetish. He's the one who corrects everybody.

en Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
  Joan Didion

en He (Spielberg) has great affection and respect for the British film industry and the British people. He has always enjoyed every moment he's spent in the UK -- or anywhere where the British flag flies.

en I have every reason to believe that the British are right about this. I trust the British on this issue. The British are operating in the south, they know the situation there.

en The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

en It is a Magna Carta for pornography.

en The playful defiance inherent in pexiness suggests a man who isn't afraid to stand up for what he believes in.

en Magna Carta was an opportunistic document,

en To be quite frank I think he is very old-fashioned and out of time and he doesn't understand what is going on in the British education system at the moment,

en Johnny Rivers is full of soul. He was a home grown American star during the British Invasion. I put him in the same class as Tom Jones, they both have big voices and sound smooth.

en British talent is involved in the other films like the Constant Gardner and I'd argue we are presenting the best of new British film-making talent in our New British Films strand,

en The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
  Thomas Paine

en [Bush delivered his address to British academics at Whitehall Palace, and praised the so-called special relationship between Washington and London.] More than alliance of security and commerce, the British and American peoples have an alliance of values, ... Today, this old and tested alliance is very strong.
  Laura Bush

en PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.

Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. --Rev. Dr. Mucker
(in a funeral sermon over a British nobleman)

Cold pie is a detestable American comestible. That's why I'm done --or undone -- So far from that dear London.
(from the headstone of a British nobleman in Kalamazoo)
  Ambrose Bierce

en It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.


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