1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures. Johan Cruyff

Lost Other Football Identity Cultures Romance Influence Fantastic English English Football

When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams - when I was, say, 14, 15 - you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were. Johan Cruyff

You Youth Say Further Those Tournaments Well Came Were Than Get Much English International Teams Started Playing

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! John Astin

Age Language Will Long Become Able Poe Dated He Were Exists Timeless Did Themes Used English English Language Universal Appreciate

I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about A.D. 300, tired and used up. All one can do is press very hard stylistically to make it glow. John Banville

Tired Latin Press Must See About Like Make Glow How Stylistically Been Up Very Use Used Hard English Europe

Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel. John Burnham Schwartz

Health Home History Become Gone Indeed Severe Would Outcome Stayed More Had Investment Economy Perhaps Proved Than Intended Blow Banker The History Of Literature Japan Might English English Literature Novel

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain. John Burroughs

Strange Old Will Country Out Poets Prophetic Generally Always His After Again Centuries Strain Whitman Figure English Many Among

I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English. John C. Hawkes

Best Jobs Kind Would Would-Be Know Because How English Prepared

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. John Clayton

Alone Language Approximately Between Were English English Language Lives Published Jesus

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. John Cleese

World Cuisine Contribution Chip English

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such. John Corey Whaley

Mom Me Book Remember School Slow Sit Down Took Kid High Super High School Could Aloud Well Terrible Read Reader Pass Still Tests Very Forever Being Mean English Needing

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English. John Daly

Good History Math Really English Suck

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. John Edward Redmond

Government Matter Country Our Hundreds Characterized Fraud Robbed Robbery Been Years Taxes Fifty English Usurpation Why Last Millions

Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic. John Grant

Love Joy Speak Because How Hear Efforts Your English Appreciate

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. John Hume

Word Language Speechless Would Would-Be English English Language Paisley

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement. John Hurt

Time School First Say High Bizarre Would Would-Be Understatement Real Very Wanted Decided Act English Prep

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds. John James Audubon

Man Better Living Birds Our Scarcely Habits Scholar Know Knows Am Than Manage Scribble Meantime Tolerable English Aware Letter

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. John Jeremiah Sullivan

Word Before Fact French Existed Up Curious Essayist English

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. John Keegan

Natural Gentleman Wellington American Eisenhower English

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years. John Krasinski

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went. John Krasinski

Teacher Know Being Where Planned English English Teacher

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. John Krasinski

Teacher Side Patches Jackets Wanted English English Teacher

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. John McCarthy

Beautiful Most Beautiful Word Language Liberal Compulsory Between Most Contemporary Forbidden Beautiful Word Difference Whereas English English Language Socialist

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that. John McEnroe

Speak World Brazil Top Airport Someone Something Tennis Had No-One Knew Spoke Said Got Junior Any Just Turned Then English Who Play Player Portuguese

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