#english

I can't read your lips unless they touch mine. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#grammar #impassioned #inspiring #jaf-liethers #kiss

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#englishmen #tears #men

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#courses #creative #creative writing #english #english major

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #everybody #fairly #gets

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. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long

I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the Wren with a dash of Martini-Drink deep. ↗

— Aporva Kala

#school #youth #love

Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered." He stared at me with disbelief. Then he lunged forward, pushing me flat in the pillows once more. He leaned over me, his mouth a brush of lips away from my own, his breath warm on my face. "Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#jake-riordan #love

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient #change

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. ↗

— William Bennett

#common #common language #english #ensure #language