“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
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
I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's… — Dara O Briain Copy Share Image
Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her… — Monie Love Copy Share Image
'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really… — Ben Schnetzer Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but… — David Chang Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but… — Doona Bae Copy Share Image
America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it?… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute… — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now,… — Luis Fortuno 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
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world;… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause.… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic… — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
