Top 26 Quotes About English Majors
#1. On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.
Dave Barry
#2. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.
Sarah Vowell
#3. I have a master's degree in medieval literature. Wyverns - or firedrakes, if you prefer - were once common in European mythology and legends." "But you . . . you're my accountant," Sarah sputtered. "Do you have any idea how many English majors are accountants?" Vivian asked with raised eyebrows.
Deborah Harkness
#4. To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.
Beth Kendrick
#5. English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Jane Smiley
#6. When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark.
Maria Semple
#7. I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
Natalie Goldberg
#8. I began to parse the sentence. This is what English majors do. It's what we're trained to do. We don't know how to do anything else, except drive cabs.
Gary Reilly
#9. There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin
#10. During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'
Jimmy Fallon
#11. See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!
J. California Cooper
#12. She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#13. I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.
Beth Kendrick
#15. The fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
William J. Clinton
#17. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
#18. Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.
Garrison Keillor
#19. When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#20. Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Francois Truffaut
#21. I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.
Muhammad Ali
#22. I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.
Beverly Johnson
#23. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.
Parul Wadhwa
#24. The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
Dan Jenkins
#25. A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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