The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They… — Tim Radford Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English,… — Juanes Copy Share Image
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room… — Brian O'Driscoll Copy Share Image
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English. — Tom Hopper Copy Share Image
It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that… — Al Jourgensen 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
The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling. — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
