Top 1200 English Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

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

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.

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

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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!

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

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

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

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

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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

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.

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

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

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.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

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

When I first came over to the States, I started writing, I think, as a way to help myself learn English. I would start stapling together little booklets for myself.

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

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