Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English,… — Juanes Copy Share Image
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
People who use chew instead of you, or misspell words on purpose because they think it sounds better, thanks for disrespecting the… — Nathan Schwake Copy Share Image
The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters.… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that… — Laura Bailey Copy Share Image
“For Sayonara , literally translated, 'Since it must be so,' of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
The number of those who have to be assimilated to the majority is not too high. It remains small compared with the… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
