English Quotes - page 17

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)
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. View quote
Pete Earley
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano. View quote
Peter Lawford
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way. View quote
Peter York
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry. View quote
Paul Kane
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not. View quote
Q'orianka Kilcher
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. View quote
Richard Lederer
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. View quote
Roald Hoffmann
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. View quote
Rob Delaney
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. (Robert Fitzgerald)
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl. View quote
Robert Knepper
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. View quote
Robert Morgan
They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. View quote
Roddy McDowall
If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say. View quote
Raymond Arroyo
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. View quote
Sonya Walger
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. View quote
Sally Kirkland
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. (Stephen Rea)
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do. View quote
Sebastian Arcelus
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. View quote
Tom Glazer
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. View quote
Tony Hillerman
I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round. View quote
Taron Egerton