I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did — Anonymous 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'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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
Great keepers and centre-backs were what the English were brought up on. — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Give me a sight of you to take back to England with me. I am not speaking Welsh, though indeed it is… — Margiad Evans Copy Share Image
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal! — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them. — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
“St George!’ the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.” — Bernard Cornwell 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 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
“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 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
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
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
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
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
