English Quotes - page 12

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. (Elizabeth George)
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. View quote
Jean Giono
My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work. View quote
Ilsa J. Bick
Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed. View quote
Candace Bushnell
Every German child learns to speak English in school. View quote
Cornelia Funke
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it. View quote
Christian Bale
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. View quote
Christian Bale
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England. View quote
Alan Bradley
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago. View quote
Amanda Hocking
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian. View quote
Lev Grossman
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. (Ludwig Quidde)
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. View quote
Michael Caine
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' View quote
David Harsanyi
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. View quote
Doug Larson
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world. View quote
Enrique Iglesias
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. View quote
Lynn Abbey
We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. View quote
Tony Iommi
Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence. View quote
Goran Visnjic
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. View quote
John McWhorter
It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England. (Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa)
In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale. View quote
Anil Kapoor
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. View quote
Bill Condon
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English teacher's interpretations of what we read. View quote
Melissa Bank