1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English. Jefferson Mays

Me Mother Gave Librarian Idea Weird Lots Children Literature English Raised

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Jeffrey Eugenides

Work Me You Old Own Honors Way Would Some My Own Various Take Had Studied Toward Force Read Courses Did Modern Middle Literature Which Centuries Might Means Your Figured English English Literature Things Start Program

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon. Jenny Zhang

Writing Mind Canon English Core

The thing that makes us root for Spider-Man as he swings across the city is that he's either having the time of his life or worrying about whether he'll be able to get a good grade on that English paper or whether or not he's going to make it home in time for Aunt May to make his dinner. Jeph Loeb

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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language. Jessye Norman

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I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. Jez Butterworth

Love Feeling Past Seeing Always Whenever England English Present

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it. Jhumpa Lahiri

Myself Me Creative Strange Speak Language Creative Process Mind Other Bengali Component Composition Never Obvious Learn Known Am Italian Normal Up Just Grew Process Then Created Speaking English Who Expressing Start

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas. Jim Crace

Politics More Concerned Than Much English Defending

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. Jim Crace

You Beneath Oak Thousand Tales Survey Any Stand English

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. Jim Davis

Comedy Understatement Contribution English

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent. Jimmy O. Yang

Speak Old Country Had Accent Came Years Really English

I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop. Jimmy O. Yang

Tried About Had Spoke Liked Accent Hip-Hop Repeat Lot Get Moved After Rid English Shows Watched

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. Joan Collins

Best School Algebra Arithmetic Terrible Course Always Literature Acting English

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement. Joanne Harris

Home School Mother Father Met France Visited Student He Spoke Know Until French Any Placement Teaching English

So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out. Joe Arpaio

You Speak Immigration Cause Out Tell ID Check Call Than Probable Suspicion Where Then Lower English Right

When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town. Joe Scarborough

Natural Sometimes Car Wife Down Kids East Out Sundays East Village Football Town Go Get Bar Central Natural Inclination English English Football Inclination Village Now Watch

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. Joel Kinnaman

Generation People World Money School Father Community Ghetto Kids Immigrants Diplomatic Some Had Part Between Over Became Because Came Were Lot Up American Where Grew In-Between Suburbs Sweden English Who English School Second

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents. Joey McIntyre

Those Know Accents How Scottish English

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