1340 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a woman, taught nothing but the classics. They revered the great British and American writers. Thomas H. Cook

Time Great Woman Nothing Public Schools Classics Writers Schools Revered American Taught Public Teachers English American Writers Whom Alabama British

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. Thomas Jane

I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve. Tiffany Hwang

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' Tim Cahill

Success Music History Song First Band Down Tribute Embraced Magazine Echoes Through Name Call Rock Rock-N-Roll Cultural Itself Roll Same Stone Rolling Rolling Stone Stones Rolling Stones Nationwide Decided Dylan Bob Cut Bob Dylan Themselves Muddy English Serious Phenomenon

I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are. Tim Curry

Kid Most Huge Children Fan English

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent. Tim Pigott-Smith

Made Accident Everything Out Having Perhaps American Nationality Want Subtlety While Them Apparent English Treasure Appreciate

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. Tim Scott

You Speak World Language Consider Fail Failed Call Because Geography Any May Spanish Bilingual English

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here. Timothee Chalamet

Speak Fluently Summers France Spent New French Obviously Because Up York New York Grew English Dad Growing Growing Up Here Raised

I do not want to play in an English club in mid-table. Toby Alderweireld

Club Want English Play

I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton. Toby Alderweireld

Day Football Day One English English Football Enjoyed

London was a spice mecca. The first recipe for curry in English was actually published in 1747. Tom Parker Bowles

First Recipe Spice London Curry English Mecca Published Actually

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic. Tom Paulin

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show. Tom Riley

Degree Birmingham Drama Directed Could Had Knew Stuff Wrote Friends Bunch Article North Did Literature Theater Show England English Radio English Literature Company Started Plays University

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb. Tom Sturridge

Mountains Broadway Broadway Show Climb Doing Person Wanted Show English

If you are going to vote in this country, you should be a citizen. To be a citizen in this country, you should know English. Tom Tancredo

You Vote Citizen Country Know Going Should English

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public. Tom Wolfe

I've been a loner all my life, so it didn't bother me that Hungarian was my first language and that I had to learn English. I had a pretty heavy accent in junior high school and would say things like 'wolume control' instead of 'volume control.' Tommy Ramone

Life Me School Language My Life First Control Say Hungarian All My Life High Would Pretty High School Loner Bother Had Volume Instead Like Accent Learn Been Junior Junior High Junior High School Heavy English Things

I studied Wilfred Owen for my English A Level, and that led me to Sassoon and Blunden, Rosenberg and Thomas. Tony Bradman

Me Thomas Studied Led English Level

Comcast is a big voice: they have a tremendous voice across America; they're a tremendous voice in Spanish and English, and they have a tremendous voice in Washington. Tony Cardenas

Big Tremendous Voice America Spanish Across English Washington

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law. Tony Cardenas

Education Future Speak Law Better Parents Trouble Own Rudimentary Way Better Future Clean Ticket House Learned None Got Narrow Little Straight Realized Us English Ever Kept

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud. Tony Harrison

Teacher Me Theatre Writing Kind Poems Poetry Allow Aloud Retrospective Read Lot English Who English Teacher Even Activity

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets. Tony Harrison

Me You Poet First TV See Poets Had He Reminds Most Blind Although First Thing Hallway Role Committed The First Thing English Who Large Bust Grave Thing Watch Milton

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. Tony Iommi

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