Andy Rooney Quotes
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
Andy Rooney
Quotes to Explore
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
Ian Mcewan
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
Dan Stevens
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
Garrison Keillor
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
Gary Johnson
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
Sam Kean
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
Ted Dekker
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
Natasha Trethewey
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
Orlando Bloom
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
