1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme. James Fenton

Good Genius Owes Variation Variations Poetry Blank Like Does Sound Sounds Lines Verse Same Subtle Theme Measured English Series

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. James Gleick

My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French. James Horner

Music People Big Composers Some Russian Mahler Never Over French Mostly Wagner Were Tastes Fan Place English Early Medieval

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber

Grace Language Value Interviews Lies Give Give And Take Fact Take Answers Opposition Perpetuate Oral Little Decline English English Language Helps Expression

I had an awkward moment when I got a phone call from the person pretending to be Winnie Mandela. 'Winnie' sounded about 12 years old, unfortunately - she'd probably been pushed to the telephone because she was the only one who spoke English. James Veitch

Phone Old Pretending Telephone Phone Call About Only Pushed Had Spoke She Call Because Got Been Years Person Mandela Unfortunately English Moment Who Awkward

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house. James Wan

I excelled in English while I was at school. Jamie Bell

School Excelled While English

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him. Jamie Campbell Bower

Learning People Remember School Language Drama About Shakespeare Both He Particularly Him Forefront Always Been English English Language English People Starting

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. Jamie Cullum

Mother Father Ancestry German Scottish English Near Nowhere Jewish

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines. Jan Brewer

Education Me You State Local More Clear Voluntary Perfectly Perfectly Clear Know Involved Math Lines Than Any Common Want Decisions Them Across Standards English Comparable Washington Set Core

We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability to learn and work using English, which makes their future success more likely. Jan C. Ting

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. Jane Kaczmarek

Crazy People Tough Months Rules Those Bizarre Because English Play

English majors understand human nature better than economists do. Jane Smiley

Nature Better Human Nature Economists Majors Understand Than Human English

As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me. Jason Momoa

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school. Jason Wu

Fashion Culture Experience School Language First Illustration Machine Sewing Vancouver Had Learned Became Lot Western Western Culture Very Trained Happened Which Acquainted English Second

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight. Jay Parini

Time Every Possession Inspection Delight Writer Tour Device Come Opens Force Because Without Narrative Fiction Certainly English Moment Whose

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent. Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Funny Me London Spoke Accent Chinese English

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. Jean Dujardin

We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside. Jeb Bush

You Learning Legal Waiting People Path Pay Earn Crimes Out Status Fine Shadows Outside Come Line Front Committing Patiently Where Taxes Cutting Should Working Means Paying English Million Million People Here

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