Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:
“The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“Do you hear the wind? Its not dying,
Its singing, weaving a song about the president saluting the trust,
The past in each of us....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labour bore fruit.”
—George Mikes (b. 1912)
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