I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.” — Robert Arger Copy Share Image
“Bad is the world, and all will come to naught when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Donvel je bio poznat po jagodama, koje su bile izgovor za poziv; ali nikakav izgovor nije bio potreban; ovu damu bi i… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Agnes Tattle was the only person he’d ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit.… — Martha Woodroof Copy Share Image
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature.… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
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When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
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The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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![“I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."” quote by Felicity Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cc/felicity-jones-2070_book_i-studied-english-literature-at-universi_553585.jpg)
