English Quotes
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I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English.
Elsa Peretti
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I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
Christopher Castellani
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I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.
Harshvardhan Rane
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If I knew a foreigner from anywhere in his virtue who would love God and would be interested in the good more than my own brother, he would be dearer to me than my brother. And hence I prefer good English priests over timid Czech priests and good German over an evil brother.
Jan Hus
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English is my first language, but when I started shooting for 'Definition of Fear,' I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!
Jacqueline Fernandez
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Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
Joe Bonamassa
Black Country Communion
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I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
Mat Kearney
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I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.
Joanne Harris
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I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.
Derek Walcott
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I'm not keen on the English way of eating outside, on the street. I want food that is clean, not impregnated with toxic fumes.
Marie Helvin
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I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
Martha Stewart
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
Martin Cruz Smith
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I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'
Marie Helvin
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My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers, and my dad spoke English.
Maria Cornejo
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He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.
Wade William Aadland
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In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.
Pamela Druckerman
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My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
Kevin Brownlow
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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'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.
Derek Walcott
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English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
Kevin Keegan
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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.
Donald Hall
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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.
S. I. Hayakawa
