“A “Kemp” was a wrestler—from cempa, the old English word for “champion” or “warrior.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“Tens of thousands of onlookers gaped in amazement as the shattered British troops marched out of Yorktown and, to the tune of… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“Our word “lord” comes from the Old English hlaford, or “loafward,” he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to… — Ronald Wright 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
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
“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
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English… — Karl Marx 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
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“Do I need an attorney or something? Because really, I feel like a criminal. I mean I could have had my cellmate’s… — Lynda LeeAnne Copy Share Image
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means… — James Goss 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
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English… — Zig Ziglar 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
Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM,… — Alasdair MacLean 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
“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
The word heaven means harmony. The word hell is from the old English hell, meaning to build a wall around, to separate;… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
“The association of the wild and the wood also run deep in etymology. The two words are thought to have grown out… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. “He’s a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum,” says one… — Jessica Burke Anthony Burdge Kristine Larsen 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
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“As Rockwell Kent said in his Alaskan journal, 'The wonder of wilderness was its tranquility.' I wish I had said that first.… — Jack Turner Copy Share Image
“They then named one day after the Moon and another after the Sun, giving them a seven-day week. Seven was regarded as… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“In Old English, thou ( thee, thine , etc.) was singular and you was plural. But during the thirteenth century, you started… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
“Spring Pea Tortellini SERVES 8 TO 10 (APPROXIMATELY 80 TORTELLINI) … and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Yeast. The word comes to us through Old English, from the Indo-European root 'yes'- meaning boil, foam, bubble. It does all those… — Christa Parrish Copy Share Image
“Fear My dictionary informs me that the word “fear” comes from the Old English word faer, which is related to the word… — Ly de Angeles Copy Share Image
“Holism, wholeness, healing, and holiness are all derived from the same root in Old English: haelen, to “make whole.” — Elaine R. Ferguson 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
“Nevertheless, for all Cnut’s determination to portray himself as a traditional Old English king, his reign had altered English society dramatically.” — Marc Morris 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
