Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English… — Peaches Geldof 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
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
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more… — Thalia Copy Share Image
Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends… — Caroline Winberg Copy Share Image
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. — John Clayton Copy Share Image
“We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane… — Richard C. Wydick Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's… — Bam Margera Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
