The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising… — Monty Don 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
I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood.… — Denis Villeneuve 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
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us… — David Warner Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't… — Phillip Hoose Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
If you want your film to be instantly green-lit, your first approach is not to go to a relatively unknown English actor.… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I… — Brendan Coyle Copy Share Image
If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.… — Juanes Copy Share Image
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the… — Saša Stanišić Copy Share Image
In England, I've never had to drive myself to work. I don't think the English producers trust actors to get up at… — Gina Bellman 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
Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“Shani Chalisa ॥दोहा॥ Doha जय-जय श्री शनिदेव प्रभु, सुनहु विनय महराज। करहुं कृपा हे रवि तनय, राखहु जन की लाज॥ Shani Maharaj,… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
