English Quotes

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.