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
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
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
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
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
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
“English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency… — Chigozie Obioma Copy Share Image
“Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japanese. French is… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
“There’s not much to give away. I’m really a very dull person.” “That’s very self-deprecating.” “It’s a British trait. Part of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
“The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs… — Will Self 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
When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of… — Lawrence Booth Copy Share Image
The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference.… — Gong Li Copy Share Image
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is… — Christopher Bailey 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
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
