Quotes of: English-language Keyword

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

Stephen Fry

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

Joss Whedon

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Louis Zamperini

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," , February 4, 2015].

Michael Gordin

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.

Maria Karnilova

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Rupert Sanders

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

Sam Claflin

This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be!" - Governor Dewar

MJL Evans and GM O'Connor

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

Miyavi

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Norman Cook

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

Neil Gaiman

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.

Tom Douglas

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Christian Slater

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Janet Montgomery

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Charisma Carpenter

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empt...

Tom Colicchio