Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Hector Hugh Munro
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
Carice van Houten
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
Candace Camp
I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
Maluma
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
Bai Ling
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio Hearn
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W. G. Sebald
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
Umberto Eco
My English is good because I have a good ear.
Barbara Sukowa
My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
Ed Weeks
of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
Victor Borge
It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
Mahatma Gandhi
The French courage proceeds from vanity...
Lord Byron
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.
Tom Hanks
There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)-likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Hector Hugh Munro