Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.
All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
