Quotes of: English-people Keyword

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Jet Li

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Jackson Browne

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

Dorothy Parker

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

E. M. Forster

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Jefferson Mays

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Almásy: Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The English Patient

Katharine Clifton: Am I K in your book? I think I must be.

The English Patient

Almásy: I am a just a bit of toast, my friend.

The English Patient

Almásy: When were you most happy? Katharine Clifton: Now. Almásy: And when were you least happy? Katharine Clifton: Now.

The English Patient

Almásy: New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.

The English Patient

Almásy: I fear Madox knows about us, he keeps mentioning Anna Karenina

The English Patient

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

Klaus Fuchs

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

[These]were the legitimate acts of self-defense which had been forced upon the Irish people by English aggression... We did not initiate the war, nor were we allowed to choose the battleground.

Michael Collins

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

Michael Moore