English Quotes
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The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
Michael Socha
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The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.
Ethan Hawke
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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.
Dean Wesley Smith
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Dogs being great linguists, she quickly picked up English, far more quickly than I picked up German, so we understood each other very well, and couche, schönmachen, and pfui continued for a long time to be my whole vocabulary.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael Flanders
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I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.
Jinder Mahal
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau
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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.
Edward III of England
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Some people say I sound Australian. I guess it's all down to Miss Matthews, who taught me English when I was growing up in Dar es Salaam. Nearly everyone in Denmark speaks English, and TV shows are only ever subtitled, not dubbed.
Sidse Babett Knudsen
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
Bel Kaufman
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
George Bernard Shaw
