English Quotes

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.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.