The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland. — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels.… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target… — Robert Jenkins Copy Share Image
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There were a lot of unique challenges in producing the film, such as the logistical issues inherent in producing a long-term verite… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there,… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world! — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they married - is buried in Quebec,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Incorporating in their colorful, slashing, superbly readable pages, the major themes of the "left" opposition under Walpole, these libertarian tracts, emerging first… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The problem with Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is that they worked brilliantly in the UK, the US, and Australia;… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he… — Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh Copy Share Image
Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts:… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own.… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
