I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages.… — Adele Exarchopoulos Copy Share Image
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor… — John Glover Copy Share Image
“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page,… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
“The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to… — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“She's no-one special. England's full of wounded people. Quietly choking. Shrieking softly so the neighbours won't hear. You must have seen them.… — Helen Zahavi Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be… — Vinnie Jones Copy Share Image
“LOSER! You English lose...I suppose he thought it was the most grievous insult he could hurl. But such a curse doesn't really… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I… — Caterina Murino Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King'… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do… — Peter Hermann Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But… — George Zimmerman Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember.… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
