Being An English Teacher Quotes

#1. I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

John Krasinski

#2. I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

Taron Egerton

#3. I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

Pope Francis

#4. Everything comes at its appointed moment. - Joseph R. Sizoo

Melody Beattie

#5. People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard Power

#7. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.

Gary Dahl

#8. I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

Franny Armstrong

#9. Separately, they called our English teacher to register their horror at their offspring being taught about witches, which apparently was an insult to both Islam and Christianity. The English teacher instructed us to white-out the word witches and write in weird sisters.

Bill Campbell

#10. For years I've gone to bed gazing up at the eternal question: WHAT IF THE HOCKEY POKEY IS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT?

Annabel Monaghan

#11. Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

Eric Cantona

#12. It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

#13. Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

Frank McCourt

#14. Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

Garry Moore

#15. My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Mayer Hawthorne

#16. Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

#17. Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

William Sterrett

#18. My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Kevin Gates