Quotes of: English-language Keyword

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

Nick McDonell

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Nikki Sixx

One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.

Oscar Wilde

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Oscar Wilde

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Peter Ackroyd

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Penn Jillette

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Paul Walker

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Roger Bannister

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Robert Fitzgerald

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

Renny Harlin

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

Santosh Kalwar

When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.

Suzy Menkes

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

Seth Rogen

In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.

Stacy Schiff

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.

Theresa May

I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.

Kabir Bedi

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

Kapil Dev

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Kate DiCamillo

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

Kristin Scott Thomas