English Quotes

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I was an English major.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.