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English Quotes by Garrison Keillor
- Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
- English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
- We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have engaged in terroristic…
- My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at…
- I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of…
- The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
More English Quotes
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my… — Christian Bale
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
- I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley