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English Quotes

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don’t go to the place they need to go to make the sound Picture Quote #1

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn’t fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can’t even speak the same language? Picture Quote #1

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show Picture Quote #1

On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don’t bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It’s not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up Picture Quote #1

If Japanese companies don’t reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract Picture Quote #1

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn’t finish Picture Quote #1

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings Picture Quote #1

The first article carrying Vonnegut’s byline, ‘This Business of Whistle Purchasing,’ a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher Picture Quote #1

You can always buy something in English, you can’t always sell something in English Picture Quote #1

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes Picture Quote #1

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English Picture Quote #1

Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren’t either, it’s a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world’s favorite music comes out of that relationship Picture Quote #1

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You can’t understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can’t recognise biblical allusions Picture Quote #1

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif Picture Quote #1

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif Picture Quote #1

Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I’m South American - we celebrate life Picture Quote #1

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it ‘Celebrity Life Magazine.’ I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco Picture Quote #1

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies Picture Quote #1

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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life Picture Quote #1

If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents’ experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you Picture Quote #1

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I’m intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next? Picture Quote #1

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it Picture Quote #1

Math just wasn’t my favorite. I didn’t get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That’s why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I’ve gotten older, I think there’s a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject Picture Quote #1

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this Picture Quote #1

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Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody Picture Quote #1

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I’ve passed it on to my children Picture Quote #1

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language Picture Quote #1

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English Picture Quote #1

My mother was a children’s librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children’s literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English Picture Quote #1

I’m kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother’s a children’s librarian, and all of the children’s literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn’t children’s literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world Picture Quote #1

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In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don’t go to the place they need to go to make the sound. (English Quotes) You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn’t fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can’t even speak the same language? (English Quotes) I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show. (English Quotes) On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don’t bash our heads. On the English bus, we bash our heads every morning. It’s not the best thing to do first thing when you wake up. (English Quotes) If Japanese companies don’t reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. (English Quotes) I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn’t finish. (English Quotes) The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. (English Quotes) The first article carrying Vonnegut’s byline, ‘This Business of Whistle Purchasing,’ a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. (English Quotes) You can always buy something in English, you can’t always sell something in English (English Quotes) English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes (English Quotes) I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. (English Quotes) Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren’t either, it’s a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world’s favorite music comes out of that relationship. (English Quotes) You can’t understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can’t recognise biblical allusions. (English Quotes) I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif (English Quotes) Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif. (English Quotes) Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I’m South American - we celebrate life. (English Quotes) My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it ‘Celebrity Life Magazine.’ I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco. (English Quotes) Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies. (English Quotes) English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. (English Quotes) If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents’ experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you. (English Quotes) Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I’m intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next? (English Quotes) I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. (English Quotes) Math just wasn’t my favorite. I didn’t get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That’s why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I’ve gotten older, I think there’s a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject. (English Quotes) I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this. (English Quotes) Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody. (English Quotes) My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I’ve passed it on to my children. (English Quotes) Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. (English Quotes) There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. (English Quotes) My mother was a children’s librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children’s literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English. (English Quotes) I’m kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother’s a children’s librarian, and all of the children’s literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn’t children’s literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world. (English Quotes)

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