English Quotes
One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.
Rich Brian
English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.
Kevin Keegan
At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
Clive Sinclair
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
Bernard Berenson
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
Kenneth Branagh
There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.
Matthew Arnold
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
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.
David Mamet
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.
S. I. Hayakawa
Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.
John Shelby Spong
All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.
Elizabeth Bibesco
In a war the last thing the English know is how to practice fair play.
Adolf Hitler
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
Anthony Minghella
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.
Kenneth Baker
My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'
Andrea Navedo
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
