The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important… — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Puff, puff puff to the brain shot. Love P.O.D.ed and tweeded, gotta get another case for my trunk. Old English, really don't… — Krayzie Bone Copy Share Image
“85 percent of the 30,000 Anglo-Saxon words died out under the influence of the Danes and Normans. That means that only about… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen… — Drew Busby Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
In Old English they don't say I had a dream, but there's another usage of the word - "life is but a… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
“To make a tarte of strawberyes," wrote Margaret Parker in 1551, "take and strayne theym with the yolkes of four eggs, and… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“The concept of an author, the single creative person who gives the text 'authority', only comes later in this period. Most Old… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Do you realise that about two hundred of Twing's heftiest are waiting for you outside to chuck you into the pond?" "No!"… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor 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
“It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can… — Julia McKenzie Copy Share Image
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
I had always loved the look of the old English gentleman who dressed in class and style, who knew what he was… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
It's kind of a cross between, I think. It's not, you know, over the top Old English, like Lord of the Rings… — Jaimie Alexander Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
“blackletter has come to represent a certain reverence and antiquity. There are various forms, such as the French/Flemish Bâtarde, or the German… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“ORIGINAL RECIPE: An other [Sallets for fish days] Salmon cut long waies with slices of onyons upon it layd and upon that… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“All illustrate the “theory of courage,” which Tolkien called “the great contribution of early Northern literature,” meaning both Icelandic and Old English… — Nancy Marie Brown Copy Share Image
