Quotes of: English-language Keyword

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

Henry Sweet

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

Hugo Weaving

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.

Javier Bardem

So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You're really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren't you?

Dianne Harman Coyote in Provence

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

Elizabeth George

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

Elmore Leonard

When the Killers first came out, a lot of people thought we were English, and it touched a chord in me, because my roots are very American.

Brandon Flowers

I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.

Glen Mazzara

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

James A. Michener

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

J. K. Rowling

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

Jane Seymour

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.

Junior Seau

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

John Thorn

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

Jennifer Weiner

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

Daniel Alarcon

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Demian Bichir

What is it about the English countryside---why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.

Deborah Kerr

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

Diane Ladd

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.

Diego Maradona