Pastoral Resources

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.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.