1335 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation. Anthony Marra

Translation Local About Russia Poets Writers Written Chechnya Well Very Central Available Little Asia Century English Novelists

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there. Anthony Minghella

You Patient Cold Out Tells No-One Studio None Ambitious Mountain Wanted Hollywood Really English Appetite

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Anthony Trollope

Happiness Love Except End English Novel

Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters. Antonio Munoz Molina

Shakespeare Permanent English Letters Presence

I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born. Antonya Nelson

Family People Parents Every State Summer State University Summers Hung Out Born More Colorado Since Most Returned Were Off Up Than Where Grew English Who Professors University

I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor. Antonya Nelson

You Natural People Sometimes Three Parents Become Sister Else Say Would Exact People Say Brothers Brought Only Writer No-One Household Became Were Up Child Same Your English Professor Professors Four Third Sibling

I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old. Armaan Malik

Old Songs Since Like Sing Always Years Wanted English Ever

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Me You Speak Parents Country Born Like Until Make Were Any Difference Where Your English Who Twenties Even

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it. Arsene Wenger

Best Problem World Enough Easy Born League Very Them Coach Working Hard Premier Premier League England English Players

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. Arthur Golden

Character Woman Book Herself Recognize About Entirely Invented She Read Because Anything Which Really English

California is the highest-tax state in the nation and has been for a long time. It has the highest-paid teachers in the nation, by far - $400 a month more than New Jersey - and yet California is the third lowest state on test scores for fourth and eighth grade English and math in the nation, and has been at the low level for a long, long time. Arthur Laffer

Time Long Long Time Nation State Month Has-Been More New California New Jersey Test Test Scores Been Math Scores Than Grade Eighth Eighth Grade Low Far Lowest Teachers English Jersey Level Fourth Third

Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it. Arthur Quiller-Couch

Life Art Me You Will Gentleman Painting Believe Indeed Tell All Your Life Admit Having Write He Prose Spoken Bourgeois Knowing Well Without Very Sir Oh Whereas Anyone Either Your Special English Nay

The whole business of reading English Literature in two years, to know it in any reputable sense of the word - let alone your learning to write English - is, in short, impossible. Arthur Quiller-Couch

Alone Business Learning Impossible Word Reading Sense Write Know Years Any Short Literature Reputable Your English English Literature Whole Two

When I speak a serious subject in an informal and humorous way, it has bigger impact. So much so, when BBC made a small documentary, they first thought of having a voiceover for me. The producer liked my English so much, he said they were retaining my original voice. Arunachalam Muruganantham

Me Speak Thought Made First Humorous Way Impact Having Small Voice Voiceover Retaining He Liked Documentary Said Were Subject Bigger Informal Much Producer English Original Serious

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco. Ashley Tisdale

Life Good Creative Writing Favorite Magazine Poems Making Subject Friend Celebrities Celebrity Did English Creative Writing Good Friend

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved. Ashwin Sanghi

Editing Words School Old Language Added Evolving Constantly See Only Purity Part Feel New Am Dictionary Improved Any Being Where Experimenting Poor Should Old School Standards English Need Harm

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century. Austin Clarke

Work Music Great Sense Eloquence Lyrical Lyrics Later Claim Tried Critics Occasion Him Least Tradition His Heard Yeats Close Closely Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Regarded Which Century Epoch English Found Brings

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself. Austin Clarke

Constitution Slow Poetry Exchange Itself Reform English British

I learned how to speak English watching television. Azita Ghanizada

Speak Television Learned How English Watching Watching Television

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him. Bam Margera

My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am. Bella Thorne

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