English Quote Quotes & Sayings

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay. — Rosie O'Donnell

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction. — Julie Anne Long

A young English couple was visiting with me one summer after I had been composting humanure for about six years. One evening, as dinner was being prepared, the couple suddenly understood the horrible reality of their situation: the food they were about to eat was recycled human shit. When this fact abruptly dawned upon them, it seemed to set off an instinctive alarm, possibly inherited directly from Queen Victoria. "We don't want to eat shit!" they informed me, rather distressed (that's an exact quote), as if in preparing dinner I had simply set a steaming turd on a plate in front of them with a knife, fork and napkin. — Joseph Jenkins

We made love... and sushi. — C.J. English

If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you. — Benny Bellamacina

The mind doesn't carry anything on its own, but it capture everything from outside, and stretch them into different experience, impressions or dreams of a person. — Roshan Sharma

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac. — Ben Stein

I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough. — Laura Moriarty

Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. — Eusebius Clay

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity. — Geoffrey B. Wilson

I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my family, I go straight to the piano and just kind of take it out on the piano and get all emotional. — Pixie Lott

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets - Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included - breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. ...
Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature?
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I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild.
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The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded their crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce. — Henry David Thoreau

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed.
.. — Virginia Woolf

The English summer is never far away; it's just above the clouds. — Benny Bellamacina