I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. — Shelley Hennig Copy Share Image
If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded. — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Obviously you know match-fixing is out there but you don't really associate it with the English game. — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
“Why no s for two deer, but an s for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules!… — Thanhha Lai Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages.… — Adele Exarchopoulos Copy Share Image
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“English: Ô, take this eager dance you fool, don’t brandish your stick at me. I have several reasons to travel on, on… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
