English Quotes
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It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
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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.
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We're a nation that speaks English. I think that, while we're in this nation, we should be speaking English... that's how we assimilate.
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There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
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I learned how to speak English watching television.
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I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.
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Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
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The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat spelling as an adventure will find the journey rewarding.
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I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off.
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I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous.
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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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'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
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In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.
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Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
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The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
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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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an Australian….They have suffered under the yoke of the English…
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I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.
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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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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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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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I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''
