English Quotes

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I've always felt very English.

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

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.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.