Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.

Aleksandar Hemon

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

John Fowles

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Neville Marriner

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Julian Clary

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Nick Mancuso

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Robertson Davies

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Roald Hoffmann

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

Sophie Marceau

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

Sun Myung Moon

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

Talib Kweli

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

Leon Krier

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Maya Angelou

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

Minnie Driver

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Mahatma Gandhi