English Quotes

[AOL] was the first big punch. - Paul English

[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped.] He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea. - Frank McCourt

[And in this new era of corporate accountability, operating executives have to understand exactly what their business risks are. Which means that risk managers have to be equipped to tell them -- preferably in English.] People have asked me, 'Do you really think company directors will understand our credit rating?' ... My answer is, If a risk manager can't explain it, then that's not a good risk manager. - William McDonough

. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. - Edith Wharton

(We) are all working in China -- what about Tibet? I mean the Americans are, (the English) are, the French are -- is it convenient? Yes for the firms, (but) not for the morality. - Bernard Kouchner

(We wanted) to adapt to the different needs of the student population. A lot of students have English as a second language. - Tim Turner

(It's) like a Parisian punkette. You know, originally the punk (were) English so it's the French version of punk which means a kind of bourgeois. A little chic, elegant and (some kind of) accident (can) happen. - Jean-Paul Gaultier

(Blair) isn't revealing anything that people are hiding. We had always hoped we would only use the interest, and we have gone past that, and we are concerned. But we are being as aggressive ... in finding other funding sources. - Michael English