English Quotes
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My style has a lot to do with where I've been brought up. I've lived half my life in Puerto Rico and the other half in Florida, so I listen to music in English as well as Spanish.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.
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I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
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Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
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Correct English is the slang of prigs.
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My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
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'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
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The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'
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I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.
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Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.
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I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.
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I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
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When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
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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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English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.
