Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was i...
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.
And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
