'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that,… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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
I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and… — Rinko Kikuchi Copy Share Image
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had… — Betty Hill Copy Share Image
The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale 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
When I began to travel around the country, I would notice in places like Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix and even Texas that… — Raul de Molina Copy Share Image
History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I don't see how English as we use it in Europe can be revivified. It's like Latin must have been in about… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The English and Japanese are the most inventive dressers in the world, but French girls are the most beautiful. I am still… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
On our American tour bus, the bunks are a bit taller so that we don't bash our heads. On the English bus,… — Liam Payne Copy Share Image
I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“just a short trip to any French territory in the Pacific is enough to convince even the most casual observer that the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
