English Quotes
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What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.
Kevin Keegan -
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
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Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
Matt Groening -
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
William Shawn -
I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.
John McEnroe -
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola -
The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
Luis Alberto Urrea -
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
Alistair Horne
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
Jeb Bush -
I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.
Lee Pace -
The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.
Apolo Ohno -
I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
J Balvin -
Initially, they wanted Columbo to wear a driving coat. I said: 'Are you kidding? He's not an English aristocrat.'
Peter Falk -
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
Elizabeth Hawes -
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.
J. B. Priestley -
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
Anushka Sharma -
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
Martin Amis -
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.
John Keats
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If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.
Neill Blomkamp -
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins Genesis -
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
Peter Ackroyd -
For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
C. S. Lewis