Top 1200 English Major Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

When I was in college, I was an English major, but I was part of this great group at Stanford called the Company. We didn't know any better, so we did it all; we did King Lear, we did Hamlet, new plays ... And we did it all in a covered wagon that we took around the Bay Area. We all put our makeup on in one cracked mirror. It was the most fun I've ever had.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

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.

Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let me give you a clue. Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.