English Quotes
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
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O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So that astounded me because I thought you could only write about English matters.
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I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
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Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
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People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
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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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One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
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I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.
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I just feel that if I'm English and writing about an American president, I have got to have someone on my side who can help me out when I'm lapsing into lazy or obvious European skepticism.
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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
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Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
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In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.
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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor.
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an Australian….They have suffered under the yoke of the English…
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My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
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Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
