#english

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. ↗

— Mike Myers

#being #canada #celery #english #essence

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bed #english #excited #farm #i

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#english #had #head #i #settlement

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

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#english #foreigner #independent #only #social

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

— Gordie Howe

#athletes #bilingual #english #profanity #professional

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

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

— Jaf Liethers

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

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

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#english #like #love #makes #may

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english