When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were… — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The amount of pressure the guys are under from the English media is fierce. — Rickie Lambert Copy Share Image
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity. — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has… — Dan Feuerriegel 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
I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed.… — Gerald McKnight Copy Share Image
I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My… — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“I remember a song we used to sing, "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." But I thought it was, "Columbus, Jump in the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Math and English must of had a relationship. How else did we get Algebra then? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all. — Sam Wanamaker Copy Share Image
England is still a place where a naughty boy who comes from nothing can live his dream. — Raheem Sterling Copy Share Image
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Culturally, socially, there are a lot of similarities between the Kiwis and the English. — Kane Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.” — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
A well known director wouldn't take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English.… — Marsha Thomason Copy Share Image
“Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place… — Pressey Edward Pearson Clapp Robert Parker Gunn Mrs. Lyman O Copy Share Image
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction… — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like:… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,'… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
