e,x: there were no two letters in all english or…

I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure…

— Ma Jian

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

— Rob Gronkowski

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long… This one would not be…

— Blaise Pascal

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and…

— Daniel Tammet

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was…

— Mark Haddon

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked…

— Paul Theroux

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like…

— Junior Seau

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

— Bat for Lashes

While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

I'm not very good at standard English.

— James Nesbitt

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

— Anonymous

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan

“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction…

— Charles Dickens

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

— Julia Glass

English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did

— Anonymous