Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist,… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
One of my favorite breakfasts is an English muffin, so I need a good toaster. — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious. — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“कंदर्प अगणित अमित छवी नव नील नीरज सुन्दरम। पट्पीत मानहु तडित रूचि शुचि नौमी जनक सुतावरम॥ To Sri Ram, whose beauty is… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read… — Emma Rigby Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
