English Quotes
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
Bernard Bailyn -
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
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Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you!
Haruki Murakami -
For my dad to say he's proud of me - in English - is a really big deal.
Mirai Nagasu -
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?
Bel Kaufman -
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 -
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
Raymond Arroyo -
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Ernest Istook
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
Frederic Chopin -
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Elizabeth Edwards -
Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.
Elise Valmorbida -
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
Seth MacFarlane -
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
Scott Westerfeld -
She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
Bel Kaufman -
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
Michael Socha -
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson -
I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'.
Emily Lloyd -
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Alfred de Musset
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Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
Evan Daugherty -
I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau -
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
Eva Mendes -
An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
Jules Verne