English Quotes
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You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.
Peter Beard -
I've done quite a few adverts. I've also done some presenting and acting work in Spain. I did a lot of Spanish education videos for people wanting to learn English.
Christopher Parker
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A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.
Quentin Tarantino -
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle -
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
Maurice Druon -
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics.
Emma Rigby -
Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
Matthew McGrory -
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
Matt Mullenweg
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There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.
Fanny Burney -
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
Paul Watson -
French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.
An Na -
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
Andy Rooney -
I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.
Xiaolu Guo -
We have a very long legal system with the European Union, and we're English speaking.
Enda Kenny
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I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
Princess Eugenie of York -
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
Jennifer Ehle -
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
Archy Ivan Marshall -
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
John McWhorter -
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
Mark Strand -
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
Angela Ahrendts
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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.
Edward Everett Hale -
If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.
Francesca Messina -
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
Cyril Cusack -
America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.
Lily Cole