#english

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#always #campbell #english #english teacher #friend

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. ↗

— Sean Connery

#english #fluent #french #i #me

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

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. ↗

— James Franco

#after #during #educating #english #english major

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#cheaper #course #economically #english #films

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#english #haunted #holds #i #jokes

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