Top 24 Quotes About English Courses
#1. 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
Edward P. Jones
#2. Finally, sweet finally, he was inside her to the hilt.
"I need a second," he ground out, his body pulsing.
"You're really freaking big, Quinn," she panted. "Move. Please, for the love of the goddess, move."
He grinned before kissing her. "You say such sweet things.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#3. Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.
John Irving
#4. I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman
#5. I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.
Todd English
#6. I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Jennifer Weiner
#7. We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.
Arianna Huffington
#8. Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is.
James S.A. Corey
#9. She wanted to trust him, but a lifetime of mistrust made it impossible.
Stephanie Garber
#10. I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#11. I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#12. I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
Nadine Velazquez
#13. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.
Christmas Humphreys
#14. I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
Martha Stewart
#15. 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.
Henry Rosovsky
#16. Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
Clive Barker
#17. Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
Will Rogers
#18. To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough
#19. Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
John Slattery
#20. Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever.
Allan Gurganus
#21. The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?
Jim McMahon
#23. You don't get to pick who you fall in love with.
Tammy Falkner
#24. People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
Barbara Demick
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