Top 1200 English Major Quotes & Sayings

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

I didn't fit the typical profile of a trader. I was an English major working on a novel at night. Most everyone else was a maths or economics major; most everyone else had relatives or family in banking.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

When I barely got into college, the one thing I could do was write, so I became an English major.

I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat, major in leisure studies... Okay, get a journalism major. Okay, education major, journalism major. Right. Philosophy major, right. Archeology major. I don't know, whatever it is. Major in ballroom dance, of course. It doesn't replace work. How about a major in film studies? How about a major in black studies? How about a major in women studies? How about a major in home ec? Oops, sorry! No such thing.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

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

The only reason I acted in school was because of the community. I was in the chorus of every play and was never the lead other than one time, but to me it was about the community. I was an English major and my whole goal was to be an English teacher and was lucky enough to get into the playwriting group. The whole experience I had at Brown was eye opening and the most mind-bending experience.

I was an English major.

Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.

I'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end of my college career I decided I was interested in urban planning. I became an urban studies major, with a minor in poetry. I don't think I knew what I was looking for in my early twenties, but I know I kept not finding it.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it

A lot of the demos I write are all in English, so releasing music in English isn't translating to English, it's just keeping them in English.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

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.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

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.

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of publications in English and courses taught in English.

If you're talking about English football very few teams play 4-4-2 now: it's either 4-4-1-1, 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, they are the three major systems played throughout the Premier League.

My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I read good. I was an English major.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."

I was an English major in college!

In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.