Quotes of: English-people Keyword

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

Joan Collins

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.

Oliver Kahn

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Olivier Martinez

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Peter Lawford

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

Robert Englund

My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

Sam Heughan

My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

Kevin Brownlow

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

I'm adapting quite well to English football with the same will I've always had.

Sergio Aguero

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.

Kate del Castillo

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

Odette Annable

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

Enrique Iglesias

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

Michael Mina

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Ian Harding

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Idris Elba

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Margaret Cho

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Edmund Waller

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Cornelia Funke