Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Willard Van Orman Quine

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Vinnie Jones

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct.

Wilfrid Laurier

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Liu Wen

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Nathaniel Philbrick

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Om Puri

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

Tom Wolfe

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.'

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Howard Coffin

Indeed, as a view of American military history it may be rivaled only by the vista from Little Round Top at Gettysburg,

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Jacques Maritain

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

Henry Adams

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Dolores Huerta

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

Louis Dudek

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Heinrich Heine

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Henry James

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Henry James

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Helen Vendler

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.