Quotes of: English-school Keyword

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Amy Childs

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapi...

Gwyneth Paltrow

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Emmy Rossum

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

Jerry Saltz

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Pat Conroy

Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?

Ashes to Ashes: Screenplay

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek? — A very lost Marcus Brody

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

In a Sunburned Country

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

Significance

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Stranger in a Strange Land

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

Merrick

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple

A Murder Is Announced

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Miss Webster and Chérif

None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari - Arabic-English

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

The Old Man and Me

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

Paris in April

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

Uncle Silas

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

David Brin

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Gad Elmaleh