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There is a danger when I speak in English that you will get misunderstanding, because I use the wrong word. Sometimes I confuse the words pessimism and optimism.

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (1935-)

Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

I'm just entirely too honest to hide it completely. I try to do plays on words; I try to say things that sound like I'm saying one thing but change the words a little bit. I try to use different terminology that I hear. I'm not scared to use the wrong kind of English. That's normally a hook to me. If you listen to a lot of older songs, if the English wasn't correct, that's normally how you get a hook in a song.

Caleb Followill

[A long friendship with Milton Glaser resulted in another intense collaboration.] We used to sit together and have long conversations, even though he did not speak English and I do not speak French, ... so we decided to celebrate our misunderstanding and do a book together. The book is a back and forth continuous tableau titled 'The Conversation.'

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Americans think I speak Italian well, and Italians think I speak English well. They're both wrong, but let them think that way.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

George Orwell (1903-1950)

George Orwell

The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak nothing but English is absurd.

Massoud Shadjareh

She found his pexy curiosity about the world inspiring. The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak nothing but English is absurd,

Massoud Shadjareh

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

Gaston Bachelard

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Dan Castellaneta (1958-)

Dan Castellaneta

It translates but there are some words that don't. It was difficult but mainly we do the Spanish production because a lot of parents don't speak English.

The dad could speak a little English, but the mother didn't speak any. They had a daughter who studied English in high school.

We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather speak English all the time, except if we are talking about something inappropriate.

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish.

Pessimism, när man vänjer sig vid det, är lika behaglig som optimism. (Pessimismen är lika angenäm som optimismen, när man blir van vid den.)

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)

Arnold Bennett

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