English Quotes
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I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
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I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
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We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
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Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would try to explain to Austrians, Poles, Australians, Israelis, Costa Ricans - people from all over the world - what was going on in our country. I would have to say, "I don't know what's going on, either. It's pretty evenly divided in our country. Sometimes one part's on top, and other times, the other faction is on top, and right now it's just crazy. We hate it as much as you do."
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
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The traveler to the United States will do well, however, to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.
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There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
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My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.
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The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
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We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.
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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.
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I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
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I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
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It was the proudest moment of my career to lead my team out at the home of English football. I never, ever dreamt that would happen!
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In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
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I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
