1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us. Dan Stevens

Me Remember Before Young Stage Too Took Pantomime Says Kids Tells Running Small Onstage He Part Invite Sort Up Very Interact Being Where Us Asked Show English Even Dad Phenomenon

I love English football. I love the way people live it so intensely. Dani Alves

Love People Live Way Football Intensely English English Football

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated. Daniel Alarcon

Writing School Language Seriously High High School Had Sophisticated Particularly Domestic Literary Spanish English Disposal Started

When you've got money to spend, it's very easy to buy someone worth £50m rather than say, 'I'm going to play this 20-year-old English player.' It's easier to buy someone when you have the money to do it. But at the same time, if you give somebody an opportunity, you never know. You can only roll the dice and see how they perform. Daniel Sturridge

Buy Time You Money Worth Opportunity Somebody Spend Say Easier Easy See Someone Give Rather Only Never Perform Know Got How Dice Very Than Roll Same Going Same Time English Play Player

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive. Daniel Tammet

There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American. Daniela Ruah

School Think Everybody Accent Mix Up American Going Quite Just Moved English International Grow Grow Up

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school. Danielle Campbell

Love School Favorite Write Subject English

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing. Danielle de Niese

Love Great Me Sense Back Humour Everyone See Restrained Charm Part Takes Polite Making Australia Being Themselves English Fun

Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day. Danny K. Davis

War Day Struggle Agriculture Markets Clash Civil Seeking Civil War Colonies Economic Merchants Advantage Between Policy Mexican Reflected Labor Southern American Northern Auto Grain Whether Interests Farmers Manufacturers English Slave

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years. Daryl Hall

Family Years England English Lived

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. Dave Gibbons

Age Book Think Books Draw Drawn Mafia Seeing About Guys Could Had Nobody Clearly Names Smith Sort Because Comic Comic Book Comic Books Came Were Italian Up Irish American Done England English Who Barry Whole Actually Thing

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use. David Bowie

System Bad Nonexistent Very Use England English Radio Media

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. David Brin

Best Science Training Better Doubt Several No Doubt Could Write Parse Majors Science Fiction Equation Scientific Were Very Authors Fiction English Who Many Helps Lives Differential Save

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves. David Chang

Reality Speak Losing Distorted Ability Someone Feel Like Because Understand Becomes Still Hear Loses Hearing Themselves English Eventually Speech

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. David Crystal

Other Feature Global Makes Spread Different Languages English Compared

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global. David Crystal

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now. David Crystal

Language Else Back Everything Everything Else Kind Touched Wrong Generations Nobody New Access New Kind Came Go Years Years Ago Inferior Did Gradually Want Then Ethos English Now Right Two

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. David Duchovny

Time School Try Thought Collaboration About Something Write Idea Liked Learn Yale Lines Graduate Graduate School Wanted Literature Might Gonna Should Acting Speaking English English Literature Plays

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over. David Eddings

Mind Living Thomas Once Mine Something Direction Take Chaucer Unconscious Over Contemporary Read Geoffrey Sir Begins Burglar Middle Stories Moving Fantasy English Start

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.' David Harsanyi

Knowledge Thinking Claims Critical Critical Thinking More Student Step Also Math Encourages Up Accurately Common Children Measure English Initiative Core

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