Quotes of: English-teacher Keyword

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.

Joshua Lederberg

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

Wim Wenders

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

Joe Strummer

The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

Affinity

French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

Anna and the French Kiss

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

A Mouthful of Air: Languages and Language, Especially English

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

The Last Kind Words Saloon

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Paul Dano

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Peter Ustinov

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Stephen Fry

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Sophie Marceau

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

Joss Whedon

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Louis Zamperini

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Maya Angelou

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," , February 4, 2015].

Michael Gordin

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.

Maria Karnilova

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Rupert Sanders

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout