English Department Quotes

#1. If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English Department, and if the writing was organized into actual paragraphs, you got at least a B-minus.

Stephen King

#2. 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

#3. The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

Camille Paglia

#4. Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.

C.M. Stunich

#6. In the late 1970s, business cards were just being reintroduced in China. I received one which stated, in English: The responsible person of the department concerned. KAREL KOVANDA Brussels

Anonymous

#7. I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen!

Chila Woychik

#8. This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

M. E. W. Sherwood

#9. I suggest we stay in the library. If there's a gun battle, they're unlikely to flee in this direction. If there isn't a gun battle, none of them are big readers anyway.

Jon Nikrich

#10. I'm very happy with my body.

Alicia Keys

#11. When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

Jung Chang