Importance Of English Class Quotes & Sayings

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet. — Langston Hughes

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? — Tom Peters

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light. — David Fincher

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods. — Donnie Wahlberg

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service. — Condoleezza Rice

People are always saying these things about how there's no need to read literature anymore-that it won't help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code for computers. More young people should go into STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. And that all sounds to be true and reasonable. But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm different. It's hard to put into words, but it's true. Words matter. — Meg Wolitzer

Before I get inside you again, you need to know that with me you don't have to hide your desires. With me you are free to let go. Whatever I can't give you I will get for you. Whatever makes you burn. — R.G. Alexander

Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater. — John Mackey

Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along with the frenzied rise of shoppers willing to fight each other at retail outlets across America, we've been steadily, for the last 30 years, watching the destruction of organized labor ... of decent pay and wages and conditions for working people ... We have Black Friday today because the wealthy elite have strangled their workers for 32 years, ever since Ronald Reagan's election. — Thom Hartmann

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc. — Grandmaster Flash