Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence. — Wilfrid Laurier 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
I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly. — Miyavi Copy Share Image
People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
School is pointless. English: We speak it. History: They're dead. Math: We have calculators. Spanish: We have Dora. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that… — Raul de Molina Copy Share Image
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. — Alan Siegel 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
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's… — Maurice Druon 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
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command… — James Fallows 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 studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
