English Quotes
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I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.
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We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
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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.'
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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.
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We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.
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I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.
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I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.
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I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.
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They haven't made an armor strong enought to resist an English arrow.
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I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
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There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
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One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.
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We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.
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I'm not very good at standard English.
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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.
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It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.
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I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.
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I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
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When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
