Quotes of: English-people Keyword

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Louis Zamperini

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.

Maria Karnilova

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

Rupert Sanders

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

Sam Claflin

This is unacceptable! We’re English, damn it! We know how to build things where they shouldn't be!" - Governor Dewar

MJL Evans and GM O'Connor

I'm English, and 'Doctor Who' was this thing that I've been watching since I was three.

Neil Gaiman

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Mamata Banerjee

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Christian Slater

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

Janet Montgomery

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.

Charisma Carpenter

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

Conrad Black

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Vikram Seth

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

William Kingdon Clifford

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Moore

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)

Faith Mortimer

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

Graham Coxon