Quotes About English Degrees

#1. After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

Linda Sue Park

#2. The English alphabet is pure insanity ... , It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

Mark Twain

#3. Meet people were they are at.

Anonymous

#4. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?" ( ... )
A sigh of longing. "To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler's trophy wife.

Gena Showalter

#6. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Shailene Woodley

#7. I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver as I stare at myown body. I don't break eye contact until I blow my load. Not once do I actually touch myself.

Zach Braff

#8. Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable.

T. B. Joshua

#9. The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Ed Miliband

#10. Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

David Mitchell

#11. You can't buy it, but it has a price," said Oryx. "Everything has a price.

Margaret Atwood

#12. To be fucking human, to not put too fine a point on it, and Daniel Boone can kiss my ass.

Terry Pratchett

#13. I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.

Josh Lieb

#14. One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

John Glover

#16. Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.
- SINGLE-MINDED

Lisa Daily

#17. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

William Raspberry

#18. She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

David Wong

#19. German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Bernard Berenson