'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could,… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems like we ever met," said Oriash, and his words make the kids fell silent. "Ever ... and so far away… — K.A.Z_Violin Copy Share Image
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve,… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I still don't know what I'm going to be. I love acting. I would love to be an English teacher. I would… — Bethany Joy Lenz Copy Share Image
Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His… — Eric Hill Copy Share Image
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“Although these negative statements that we speak over people’s lives are ‘simple English’, they tend to be sticky and their damage is… — D.S. Mashego Copy Share Image
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders,… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England,… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh,… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
