#english

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. ↗

— Sean Connery

#english #fluent #french #i #me

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #everybody #fairly #gets

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. ↗

— James Franco

#after #during #educating #english #english major

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me. ↗

— Marvin Hagler

#against #also #believe #belt #champion

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. ↗

— Walter Legge

#disliked #english #i #liked #neither