Top 37 Quotes About Subject English
#1. Twitter is not a technology company, it is a publishing company.
Eric Schmidt
#2. Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.
Martha N. Beck
#3. What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse
John Hampden
#4. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.
Patricia Duncker
#5. Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or in plain English a lie.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#6. My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
Christie Laing
#7. Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals.
Geraldo Rivera
#8. I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.
J.K. Rowling
#9. Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.
Stephen Colbert
#10. I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
Douglas Hyde
#11. Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.
Emile Zola
#12. In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
Stacy Schiff
#13. Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'
Richard Reti
#14. My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.
Ashley Tisdale
#15. My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.
Doona Bae
#16. Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
John Dryden
#17. If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
Daniel Tammet
#18. My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren.
Lee Kuan Yew
#20. But let not little men triumph upon knowing that Johnson was an HYPOCHONDRIACK, was subject to what the learned, philosophical, and pious Dr. Cheyne has so well treated under the title of 'The English Malady.
Samuel Johnson
#21. They forgot their lives for a moment, abandoned all fear, every thought and troubling notion carried away on the back of the breathtaking melody.
Shawn Mihalik
#22. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz
#23. My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
Herschel Walker
#24. The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
Gore Vidal
#26. Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
Gore Vidal
#27. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding
#28. The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#29. The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
Vance Havner
#30. That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.
Samuel Goldwyn
#31. The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
#32. One cultivates one's life, one's friends, one's means, one's hopes. One goes from place to place, from triumph to triumph, in search of ambition and ambition's remedy as though in flight across some imagined map, the subject of a conversation in a comfortable English room.
Jesse Ball
#33. At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie
#34. I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'
Tom Wolfe
#35. English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith
#36. I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
Eric Bana
#37. I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.
Richard P. Feynman
