A Quote by Jonathan Anderson

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

Jonathan Anderson

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Jonathan Anderson
Irish - Designer

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

Perdita Weeks

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Marlo Thomas

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

J. B. Priestley

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only teacher in the school to have a top-of-the-range Porsche and all the trappings of success, so it was very interesting for me to find out how he did it. He was probably the wealthiest English teacher in the community.

Peter Jones

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

Petr Cech

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

Jean Houston

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

Caroline Winberg

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Mamata Banerjee

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.

India de Beaufort

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

Jaap Stam

I loved school, although I got bored very easily. I liked literature. I loved philosophy. I didn't like math. I was good at English. I didn't like German. I was good at sports and continued to compete on all sorts of teams.

Dominique Crenn

Well,' said Mrs Smiling, 'it sounds an appalling place, but in a different way from all the others. I mean, it does sound interesting and appalling, while the others just sound appalling.