Quotes of: English-school Keyword

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Jefferson Mays

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Almásy: Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.

The English Patient

Almásy: I am a just a bit of toast, my friend.

The English Patient

Almásy: When were you most happy? Katharine Clifton: Now. Almásy: And when were you least happy? Katharine Clifton: Now.

The English Patient

Almásy: New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.

The English Patient

Almásy: I fear Madox knows about us, he keeps mentioning Anna Karenina

The English Patient

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

School Bully: Keith. Keithy. oi, oi. [whistles] Shaun: Talkin' to me? [nods] Shaun: What? School Bully: I never knew Keith Chegwin had a son. Shaun: Piss off. School Bully: What the fuck are they? Shaun: These, I'm wearing them for a bet, what's your...

This Is England

Frank Morris: Something special about those steps? English: The higher you sit, the more status you got. So we kind of play King of the Mountain. Except here we don't play for fun, man. Frank Morris: And you're King? English: Yeah. [Morris walks down...

Escape from Alcatraz

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Anna Karenina

In high school I attended a magnet school—for refrigerators.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

Jennie Garth

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Mike Krzyzewski

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

Emma Roberts

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

Ursula Andress