#english

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#born #bothered #come #english #europe

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

— Edmund Waller

#english #make #may #ocean #only

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient. ↗

— James D. Watson

#heard #lover #never #only #patient

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#english #literature #study #university #career

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #greatest #his #language

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#anytime #bands #english #i #i can

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#fact #good

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#english #film #i #i love #jude