English Quotes

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Scott Westerfeld
- College
- English
- Writer
Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Dean Wesley Smith

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook
- Reading
- Language
- Citizen
American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

J. R. R. Tolkien
But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer
- History
- Hands
- Calamity
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

Ernest Istook
The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.

Ethan Hawke
- Language
- Emotions
- Script
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Laurie Anderson