Quotes of: English-people Keyword

Almásy: I just wanted you to know: I'm not missing you yet. Katharine Clifton: You will.

The English Patient

[Asked what he hates most] Almásy: Ownership. I hate being owned.

The English Patient

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

Robert Sean Leonard

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Melina Mercouri

The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle English of Chaucer far behind. In many ways, the language has changed less in the 400 years since Shake...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The fairy or fantastic world replaces the classical Hades (or Hell) in Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight takes this fantasy element to new heights. Sir Gawain is one of the Knights of the Round Table, the followers of King Arthur, who is...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

By the way I also would say "I got a book." But your teacher and I are not "English teachers" in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English language ought to be: I'm concerned entirely with what it and however it came to be wha...

Letters to Children

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had...

Ishmael Beah

Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a sub...

Jodi Picoult

English Bob: This Strawberry Alice person, tell me again. Barber: Down the street and across. Greely's Beer Garden and Billiard Parlour. Just ask for Alice; say you want a game of billiards. English Bob: Even though I don't really wish to play. Barbe...

Unforgiven

People of very different opinions--friends who can discuss politics, religion, and sex with perfect civility--are often reduced to red-faced rage when the topic of conversation is the serial comma or an expression like . People who merely roll their ...

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali!. So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people. Greedy, barbarous and cruel, as you are. Sherif Ali: Come. I will take you to Feisal. T.E. Lawrence: I do not want your ...

Lawrence of Arabia

The problem is that most people spend their lives looking but not truly seeing, or, as Sherlock Holmes, the meticulous English detective, declared to his partner, Dr. Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

The Book of English Magic

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Gong Li

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

Lanier Ivester

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Salma Hayek