English Quotes
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
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The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
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I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
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Together - one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
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The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.
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To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.
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I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
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My tastes went all over the place, from Strauss to Mahler. I was never a big Wagner or Tchaikovsky fan. Benjamin Britten, Tallis, all the early English Medieval music, Prokofiev, some Russian composers, mostly the people that were the colorists, the French.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
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I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
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English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.
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'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!
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It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
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The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
