English Quotes
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When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
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The English peace is the peace of the grave.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
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I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.
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I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.
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The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.
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I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
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Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
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At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
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No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
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Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
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Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
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Casseroles don't have to be about canned ingredients and vegetables you normally wouldn't even think of eating alone, much less stuck in between layers of sauce and breadcrumbs. They can vary from everyone's favorite all-time casserole, macaroni and cheese, to the ultimate English casserole, Shepherd's Pie.
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.
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Of the Black Prince his son at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. Old English Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I woll this iourney be his, and the honoure therof.
