English Quotes

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin
- Up
- Book
- Friends
English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.

Labrinth LSD
- Music
- American
- English

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

James McAvoy
- People
- English
- Distance
Ghastly Good Taste, or a Depressing Story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture.

John Betjeman
- Good
- Fall
- Architecture
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell
- School
- Mother
- High
I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.

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

Alex Cox
- English
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

Bryce Courtenay
- Life
- She
- Mother