1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world. Amir Khan

World White Fighter Would Superstar Fact Know Were Been Maybe English Britain

My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country. Amitabh Bachchan

For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns. Amitava Kumar

Saying Me Say Alike Bit Would Would-Be India Indians Horns Written Like Look Identical Cows Same English Novels

While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly. Amruta Khanvilkar

Me People Speak Laughed Properly Hindi Because Doing While English

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese. Amy Tan

Sad Me Age Speak Parents Fluency Later Adult Spoke Combination Until Retrospect Well Force Learn Because Doing Five America Wanted Chinese English Believed Chance

Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us? Ana Navarro

When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him. Ana de Armas

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do. Andrea Barrett

Teacher Class Writing School Year Think Out High Would Fabulous High School Horrible Someday Something Student Sophomore Sophomore Year Although Go Junior Junior High Did Just Afterwards Might Then Skip English English Teacher Her Actually Started

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. Andrew Fletcher

The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents. Andrew Neil

No one has ever doubted Kevin Pietersen's abilities as a player, he has been a phenomenal player for England for a long period of time, his record stacks up to anyone's in English cricket and he should be very proud of his record. Andrew Strauss

Time Long Cricket Has-Been Ability Record Long Period No-One He Period Proud Been His Up Very Anyone Should Doubted England English Ever Player Phenomenal Kevin

We've always got to look for opportunities for our English coaches to get more experience than just doing county coaching gigs. They need to do more than that if they're going to be viable candidates for England jobs going forward. Andrew Strauss

Experience Opportunities Our Jobs Gigs More Look County Always Got Doing Than Get Viable Going Candidates Just Coaches Coaching England English Forward Need

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all. Andy Murray

Fitness People Problem Some Friends Trainer English English People

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour. Andy Partridge

Settlement Tour Had Head Come Want English

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively. Angela Bassett

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening. Anita Brookner

Me People Sometimes Complacent Say Maddening People Say Seems Never Ineffable Always Am Which Depressing English Serious

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot. Anitta

Music Me People Language Other Took Tried Classes More Studied Sing Singers Learned Another Course How Lot Getting Listened Spanish Them Used English Helps

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day. Ann Hood

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English. Anne Carson

Me Think Imitate Way Say About Something Poets Push Towards Attracts Always Metaphor Density Greek Trying Really Use English

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden. Anouska Hempel

Love Day Garden Yourself People Country Looking Building Every Secrecy Carpet Admire Both Most Venice Also Houses Isolate Which English Connect Resembles Bridges Floating Gardens Palace Palaces Night

I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science. Anthony Doerr

History Science Writing College Master Studied Sort Always Got English

I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars. Anthony Marra

Single Find Could Written Chechnya Most Period Read Nonfiction While English Wars Novel Searching Recent Two Set

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