English Quotes
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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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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My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
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I do love cricket - it's so very English.
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
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The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.
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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
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Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.
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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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I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.
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What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
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The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
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By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
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This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.
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Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
