Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Actually, I've taught creative writing in Turkey, at an English language university, where the students were native Turkish speakers, but they were writing their essays in English, and they were very interesting - even the sense of structure, the conventions of writing, the different styles of writing.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

The two biggest legacies of the Raj are the unification of India and the English language. Moreover, without the railways, India would not have been connected and could not have become one country.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.