Quotes of: English-school Keyword

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Rupert Murdoch

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.

A Marriage for Meghan

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Motherland

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Little Manhattan: The Movie Novel

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

Stoner

I’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur.

Xazaqazax

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

Carla Bruni

an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.

To a Fault

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Middlesex

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

Otto Hahn

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

Russell Baker

The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'

Renee Ellmers

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

Scott Westerfeld

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

Townsend Harris

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Thomas Mars

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

Kailash Kher

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Karl Lagerfeld

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Melanie Lynskey

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Manfred von Richthofen