America Quote by Carrie Fisher

“They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said,…

— Nnedi Okorafor

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn…

— Quentin Crisp

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of…

— Ben Wheatley

“You speak very good English for an American.”

— Nico

I speak English my way, but people understand it. You can understand everything I say, and that's the most important thing.

— Louis van Gaal

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end of the…

— Helen Mirren

“it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.”

— Bruce Cumings

“When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them,…

— Trevor Noah

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person…

— Jaime Murray

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make…

— Terry Pratchett