Quotes of: English-teacher Keyword

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Max von Sydow

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Stephen Rea

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Wilfrid Laurier

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Wally Schirra

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Yaya Toure

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Zia Haider Rahman

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Olivier Martinez

Many different kinds of sprouts lay torn. Green, purple and orange leaves lay scattered across the dark soil, and the thorn fence surrounding the bed had a fist-sized hole in it. Teacher eased himself into a squat, poked at the inside of the hole. Wh...

Fire from the Overworld

13. A Buddha In Tokyo in th Meiji era there lived two prominent teachers of opposite characteristics. One, Unsho, an instructor in Shingon, kept Buddha's precepts scrupulously. He never drank intoxicants, nor did he eat after eleven o'clock in the mo...

Nyogen Senzaki

One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vist...

Richard F. Thomas

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Fidelity: Poems

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