The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. Votes: 3
Julius Caesar ScaligerThe English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. Votes: 3
Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of SullyUsually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily. Votes: 3
Natalia MakarovaAmerican professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. Votes: 3
Gordie HoweUsually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. Votes: 3
Natalia MakarovaThe English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praisingthemselves. Votes: 3
Wyndham LewisChristopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. Votes: 3
Christopher BuckleyThe English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. Votes: 3
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. Votes: 3
Alexander WoollcottCivilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Votes: 3
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. Votes: 3
Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of SullyMost English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. Votes: 3
Nicholas HaslamThe English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth. Votes: 3
David E. GoldbergI imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. Votes: 3
Peter UstinovThere are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. Votes: 3
Neville MarrinerI've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. Votes: 3
Audrey TautouI was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Votes: 3
Rachel WeiszI can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. Votes: 3
Tyler OakleyPeople like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English. Votes: 3
Avril LavigneEvery American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. Votes: 3
Mignon McLaughlinWillmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. Votes: 3
William Rounseville AlgerThe English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. Votes: 3
Oliver GoldsmithEnglish? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! Votes: 3
Dan CastellanetaSeriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. Votes: 3
Stephanie PerkinsMy mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. Votes: 3
Vladimir NabokovWhat soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareI have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. Votes: 3
Steve KanalyThe Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. Votes: 3
Walt WhitmanFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Votes: 3
Neale Donald WalschAs long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonEnglish is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. Votes: 3
S. I. HayakawaThere are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors Votes: 3
Vanna BontaEven English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. Votes: 3
Kshitij ShringiThe upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. Votes: 3
D. H. LawrenceAll messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English. Votes: 3
George CarlinA Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches. Votes: 3
Jonathan SacksHumor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Votes: 3
Malcolm MuggeridgeI'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. Votes: 3
Ben ElliotThere are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors. Votes: 3
Vanna BontaI was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. Votes: 3
William MapotherThe world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. Votes: 3
Robert Louis StevensonEnglish words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. Votes: 3
Denis JohnsonThe English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. Votes: 3
Andy RooneyUnfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players. Votes: 3
Arsene WengerThe tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ... Votes: 3
Catharine BeecherIf you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? Votes: 3
Olivier MartinezThe English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. Votes: 3
Thomas BeechamIf something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English. Votes: 3
Dan CastellanetaBeing English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. Votes: 3
Elizabeth HurleyWhy should I learn English? I'm never going to England. Shah, pffff, ur, doy. Votes: 3
Christopher TitusThe English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping Votes: 3
Michael HutchenceI'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had. Votes: 3
Sergio AgueroI hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. Votes: 3
Hani FurstenbergThe English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. Votes: 3
Michael HutchenceWriting is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses. Votes: 3
John IrvingAll the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers. Votes: 3
Ray BradburyOne is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather. Votes: 3
Deanna RaybournThe English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 3
Edward BondThe English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. Votes: 3
Will RogersI'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats. Votes: 3
Philip TreacyLaistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians. Votes: 3
Rick RiordanI'm English and, as such, I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise. Votes: 3
Bill BaileyOnly in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' Votes: 3
Liz WilliamsAll the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Votes: 3
Bernard PivotAre there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow? Votes: 3
Jennifer FlackettIt is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. Votes: 3
Margaret ThatcherAn English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever. Votes: 3
Jonathan SwiftAw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind. Votes: 3
Kami GarciaYou can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English. Votes: 3
Rosabeth Moss KanterDan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. Votes: 3
Edmund SpenserAn English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. Votes: 3
Jules VerneI always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. Votes: 3
Robert EnglundIt takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. Votes: 3
John Kenneth GalbraithOthers may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Votes: 3
Edmund WallerThe English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleI like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. Votes: 3
Malcolm BradburyWhere shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauLet us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! Votes: 3
John A. MacdonaldTo get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiI speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. Votes: 3
Maya AngelouI was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. Votes: 3
Aishwarya Rai BachchanI think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. Votes: 3
Daniel RadcliffeThe Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Votes: 3
Wilfrid LaurierThe funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles. Votes: 3
Garrison KeillorWell, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. Votes: 3
David AttenboroughHer frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent. Votes: 3
Hector Hugh MunroI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain. Votes: 3
Alan BennettOpera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. Votes: 3
H. L. MenckenWhen the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done. Votes: 3
Jose BergaminI'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on Votes: 3
Lauren GrahamThe English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner. Votes: 3
Margaret HalseyThe reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage. Votes: 3
Camille PagliaNine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. Votes: 3
C.P. SnowThe English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. Votes: 3
Nancy MitfordEnglish women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes. Votes: 3
Trinny WoodallThere is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 3
Zadie SmithI avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. Votes: 3
David HockneyThe English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. Votes: 3
James AgateBut the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different. Votes: 3
Larry McMurtryCulture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. Votes: 3
Raymond WilliamsThe number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. Votes: 3
Stephen AmbroseI speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Votes: 3
Isabel AllendeWe can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. Votes: 3
Evelyn WaughSometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem. Votes: 3
Shirley Geok-lin LimEnglish vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are. Votes: 3
Deborah HarknessThe trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. Votes: 3
Katharine TynanI believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiDo not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever. Votes: 3
Libba BrayThe four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. Votes: 3
Wendy AlexanderThe English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. Votes: 3
Oscar WildeThere is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. Votes: 3
Jim ButcherBut 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. Votes: 3
John DrydenThe English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. Votes: 3
Malcolm BradburyIsaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. Votes: 3
Irwin ShawIf you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. Votes: 3
Lucy LiuThere wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical. Votes: 3
David WarnerHELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. Votes: 3
Bertrand RussellI want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiI wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. Votes: 3
Catherine DeneuveI do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well. Votes: 3
Emerson FittipaldiI was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much. Votes: 3
Geraldine ChaplinI'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. Votes: 3
Alessandro NivolaIt is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with. Votes: 3
Kingsley AmisIf one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure. Votes: 3
Cesc FabregasI haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now. Votes: 3
Robert BenchleyI can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages. Votes: 3
Azim PremjiI write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. Votes: 3
Daniel AlarconIs there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? Votes: 3
Erica JongThe American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of Votes: 3
William Carlos WilliamsMy mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. Votes: 3
Tatiana MaslanyTheir perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs. Votes: 3
Colum McCannChildren learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Votes: 3
Jeffrey EugenidesA smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiAn English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one! Votes: 3
Romain GrosjeanI write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. Votes: 3
Violante PlacidoI went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech. Votes: 3
Tom StoppardEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Votes: 3
Clarence DarrowI had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. Votes: 3
Christie HefnerThe English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. Votes: 3
Jeremy PaxmanI once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't. Votes: 3
Rodney DangerfieldWhat an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse Votes: 3
John HampdenIt's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that. Votes: 3
Phil CollinsI move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English. Votes: 3
John le CarreI went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school. Votes: 3
Jackie ChanIf I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth. Votes: 3
Kevin KilbaneI think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer. Votes: 3
Chath PiersathIf I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class. Votes: 3
Lady VioletBy ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiHe seems to have declared war on the Kingâs English as well as on the English king. Votes: 3
Arthur Conan DoyleIs it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.
Eddie VedderIt is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Edmund WilsonI'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Emmanuel JalCholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Padgett PowellI learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.
Roberto De VicenzoI think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
William HogarthIt is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston ChurchillNo serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.
Frederic G. KenyonThey (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
Harry CarayA lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.
Hiroyuki SanadaAmerican English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.
J. R. R. TolkienI used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.
Joan of ArcThe English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Mahatma GandhiEnglish was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.
Miriam A. FergusonI am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar WildeForget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Thomas B. MacaulayEconomists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
Al NicholAmericans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.
Carl AndreFreedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.
John DrydenThe English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.
Peter MayleANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonWithin five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIs it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
Edward JenksThere is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Heinrich HeineThe English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
Julien Offray de La MettrieNeither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Aravind AdigaThere are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
Bob HopeThe oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
Charles ChurchillFair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Freya StarkWhy would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?
Jon StewartI used to let the olde english 8- suds bubble in the last car of the Franklin Avenue shuttle
KRS-OneFor me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha MitchellEnglish is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav HavelI do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
Charles SpurgeonSpeaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
Edward R. MurrowI don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.
Grace JonesSo far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
H. P. LovecraftThe only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.
Jacques ChiracIt is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
John Jeremiah SullivanAt home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.
Matthew RhysA person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oThey said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.
Roddy McDowallWe've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
Chuck PalahniukOf all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
Elias CanettiIn fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.
Erich FrommGerman and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
George Bernard ShawThe English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard ShawOne of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Lafcadio HearnThe English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael FlandersAmerica believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
Quentin CrispForeign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?
Stephen ColbertEngland is a very popular foreign country to visit because the people there speak some English.
Dave BarryOnce, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
Gyorgy LigetiYou got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
Josh LanyonLiberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.
Malcolm XI've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism
Michael YorkShe spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
Bob HopeI'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
David BowieIn English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.
Nhat HanhThose who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'RourkeThere are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.
W. H. AudenBut of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
Walter BagehotIf you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.
Alfred KahnUse short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
Ernest HemingwayThe way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English.
Homero BlancasComedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.
Kate BushEnglish people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonEnglish history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.
Terry PratchettI hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
Daniel ToshThey [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Edmund WilsonEnglish rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.
Maureen JohnsonGod bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was
Paolo RossiI have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.
Patrice EvraI guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English [because of The Mighty Boosh].
Rich FulcherSo, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English
Sophie MarceauI write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
William MonahanFor this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
Alfred Lord TennysonMaking a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western
Ang LeeThe ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.
Harvey MackayWithout the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
John DeweyI am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Michael ScottWhat is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oWho but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?
Richard RussoDon't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
William GoldingI don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
Christopher CastellaniAn agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.
Jane SeymourThe Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
Jean GionoI'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
Jon Bon JoviThe English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel CapekHowever virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
Mahatma GandhiI admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya AngelouWe get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.
Victoria BeckhamThe English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. Votes: 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay
I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English. Votes: 1 Kerry Greenwood
Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix. Votes: 1 Caroline Winberg
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English. Votes: 1 Pankaj Mishra
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them. Votes: 1 John McWhorter
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. Votes: 1 A. E. van Vogt
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. Votes: 4 Vladimir Nabokov
If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!' Votes: 1 Janet Montgomery
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Votes: 1 Clarence Darrow
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. Votes: 1 Lytton Strachey
I never had much education in English poetry as such. Votes: 2 Anne Carson
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner. Votes: 1 Kevin Kwan
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be. Votes: 2 Zadie Smith
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective. Votes: 1 Jochen Zeitz
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. Votes: 1 Niger Innis
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. Votes: 2 Louis Tomlinson
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. Votes: 0 Felix Baumgartner
I translated Beatles songs for my English class. Votes: 4 Christian Lacroix
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today. Votes: 1 Joshua Foer
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English. Votes: 1 Keyshawn Johnson
I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. Votes: 2 Robin Gibb
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home. Votes: 2 Natalie Dormer
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics. Votes: 2 Patrick Carman
There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. Votes: 1 Zadie Smith
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else. Votes: 1 Michael Socha
Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities. Votes: 1 Martha Beck
I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music. Votes: 2 Prince Royce
In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. Votes: 2 Alex Ferguson
I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens. Votes: 1 Robert Wilson
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. Votes: 1 Alan Siegel
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor. Votes: 1 Nicholas Stoller
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Votes: 5 Derek Walcott
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. Votes: 1 Twyla Tharp
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it. Votes: 1 Michel Faber
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. Votes: 1 William Labov
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot. Votes: 1 Karl Lagerfeld
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Votes: 1 Michael Gove
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally. Votes: 1 Juan Williams
I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. Votes: 4 Maggie Gyllenhaal
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged. Votes: 2 Henry Steele Commager
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. Votes: 4 Stephen Ambrose
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. Votes: 1 Kristin Scott Thomas
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient. Votes: 2 James D. Watson
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin. Votes: 3 John Arbuthnot
I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. Votes: 1 Ian Mcewan
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Votes: 2 Diane Wakoski
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. Votes: 1 Robert Trout
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Votes: 2 Pete Earley
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. Votes: 4 Pat Boone
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. Votes: 2 Audrey Tautou
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. Votes: 1 Erik Estrada
I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing. Votes: 2 Todd English
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Votes: 1 Larry Flynt
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. Votes: 3 David Crystal
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God. Votes: 2 Rabih Alameddine
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Votes: 1 Anthony Trollope
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Votes: 1 Philip Pullman
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! Votes: 0 Philip Pullman
The most important word in the English language is hope. Votes: 5 Eleanor Roosevelt
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost. Votes: 1 Christie Laing
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language. Votes: 1 Billy Collins
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.' Votes: 3 David Harsanyi
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. Votes: 3 Cher
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. Votes: 2 Zadie Smith
I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture. Votes: 2 Zach Galligan
I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. Votes: 1 Todd English
I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. Votes: 2 Eva Green
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. Votes: 2 Henry Petroski
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Votes: 4 Jeffrey Eugenides
English majors understand human nature better than economists do. Votes: 1 Jane Smiley
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. Votes: 5 Jeffrey Eugenides
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. Votes: 1 Jose Mourinho
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom. Votes: 4 Larry Rosenberg
Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care. Votes: 2 Concha Buika
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Votes: 1 Ernest Istook
Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship. Votes: 2 Rob Sheffield
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Votes: 2 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye. Votes: 1 Wilbur Smith
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. Votes: 1 Walter Bagehot
I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books. Votes: 4 Pat Mora
Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English. Votes: 3 Martin Jacques
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. Votes: 4 Marilyn vos Savant
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music. Votes: 6 John R. Rickford
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. Votes: 1 Phil Klay
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Votes: 1 Michael Eric Dyson
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. Votes: 2 Lafcadio Hearn
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco. Votes: 3 Ashley Tisdale
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive. Votes: 2 Daniel Tammet
I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round. Votes: 2 Taron Egerton
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. Votes: 2 Anthony Horowitz
On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. Votes: 1 Nelson Mandela
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.' Votes: 1 Jack McDevitt
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. Votes: 1 J. M. G. Le Clezio
I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field. Votes: 1 Masahiro Tanaka
Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English. Votes: 1 Julio Iglesias
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English. Votes: 1 J. M. G. Le Clezio
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. Votes: 2 Jonathan Lethem
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco. Votes: 1 Ashley Tisdale