We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are no secrets about England - they are searching for positives. — Shane Warne Copy Share Image
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia. — David Means Copy Share Image
Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those… — Carl Hagelin Copy Share Image
“The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
“It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at… — Odette Annable Copy Share Image
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17-… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not… — Eddi Reader Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. — Shelley Hennig Copy Share Image
