English Quotes
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The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.
Denholm Elliott
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
Alek Wek
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My first roommate was from Hong Kong and spoke perfect English. He also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese but wanted to learn business and legal terms, ... My second roommate was from Northern Ireland. He had taught English in Japan for two years but wanted to work in China.
Cheryl Baker
Bucks Fizz
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When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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English country towns are often seen as a cultural wasteland, but the more cut off you are, the more the need to create things, to make your own culture.
Mary Beard
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As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.
Jason Momoa
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Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.
Peter Hermann
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
Geoffrey Canada
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I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.
Prince Royce
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
Carl Andre
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'The English are very stupid,' said Poirot. 'They think that they can deceive anyone but that no one can deceive them.'
Agatha Christie
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Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
James Gleick
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
Lynn Abbey
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The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
John Cleese
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I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.
James McAvoy
