Bad Quote by Alex Sharp

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

— Andrew Yang

I never thought I was academically gifted at school. But when I started flying, I found you didn't need an academic mind - you…

— David Jason

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

— Joseph Mawle

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in an immediate…

— Lynne Tillman

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could…

— Tom Riley

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

— James Connolly

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”

— Harper Lee

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to…

— Steven Pinker