“Many Continentals tink life is a game; the English think cricet is a game.” — George Mikes Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
There have been a bunch of Indian films in English that found an audience. — Arfi Lamba Copy Share Image
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, all the top English players are who I strive to be like. — James Ward-Prowse Copy Share Image
“The English will never be forgiven for the talent for destruction they have always displayed when they get off their own island.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play.… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But… — George Zimmerman 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
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my… — Xavier Samuel Copy Share Image
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part… — Eiza Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And,… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“I don't want her to know the truth about us." "I'm merely going to explain to explain that I'm not Nathaniel's mistress."… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
