Sarojini Naidu Quotes

Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm.

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.

I am great admirer of China. It has shown great discipline and dedication in attacking n export markets. China is working furiously on its English-language capability and its quality control. As China become stronger, it sends a clear signal that we in India have to harder to stay ahead.

It seems such a shame
When the English claim
The Earth,
That they give rise
To such hilarity
And mirth.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I find it insufferable too the way people spread word about the latest novelties and make a fuss over them. I am charmed by the man who remains unaware of such fashions until they have become quite an old story to everyone else.

Griffin Burns (Anime English Dub)

[https://www.naomiosaka.com/ Official website] in (English and Japanese)

?Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend” [http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/05/31/paul-scholes-top-quotes-on-a-top-player/]

In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twelve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

[http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm G8INA's Full Lin Yutang English bibliography] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103044245/http://www.harrisphotography.co.uk/full_lin.htm Internet Archive copy] instead

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Lizzie Freeman (Anime English Dub)

[http://www.chinesetolearn.com/lu-xuns-life-literary-work-and-quotes/ Lu Xun's quotes in Chinese original, pinyin, and English translation] at chinesetolearn.com

DePauw University News [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17824 "Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize "Charmed Years"]. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

[http://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Master Sheng-Yen]