Quotes of: English Keyword

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Karl Lagerfeld

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Pat Boone

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

Clive Owen

Shinji Mimura, Shougo Kawada: [at different instances, in English] Game over.

Battle Royale

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Alfred de Musset

A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

Al Madrigal

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Alan Perlis

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.

Violante Placido

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W.S. Merwin

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

Will Self

Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault?

William Wordsworth

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be m...

The English Patient

The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is...

Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without

The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the United States of America. It sprang from the German tongue spoken by the Teutons, who came over to Britain aft...

How to Speak and Write Correctly

I phoned the Admiral back. 'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.' There was a short pause on the end of the line then his voice rattled into life like a sabre. 'They're lying, Tim!' 'What?' 'The French Navy must by law speak Eng...

In The Bath: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing

Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned the accepted order, the United Kingdom exercised all its power so that revolution ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

[W]hen you make your mistakes in public you will learn that they are mistakes and in being corrected you will grow. It also reminded me that being wrong and responding to correction with resilience was a higher virtue than covering up your mistakes s...

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be a...

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer; The Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century Volume 1