#english

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. ↗

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#big #business #craft #english #generalization

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#criminal justice #english #i #justice #majored

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#because #charge #could #dollars #english

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#english #especially #novel #personal #requires

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american life #basic #became #britain

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american literature #degree #english #finally #got

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#club #convinced #englishman #every #exclusive

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. ↗