Quotes of: English-people Keyword

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Cesc Fabregas

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Irwin Shaw

'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

Jamie Cullum

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

Daniela Ruah

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

Helen Mirren

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

Jaime Murray

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

Joe Strummer

When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.

Joe Strummer

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

John Hurt

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

John Walker Lindh

Andrew Wyke: Wit in the face of adversity! Good! You've learned something from the English.

Sleuth

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

Demian Bichir

Michael: [teaching Apollonia to drive] It's safer to teach you English!

The Godfather

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I felt someone walk over my grave.

The Killer

Daniel Hochleitner: You are the Yankee they talk about? John Book: I thought I was the English.

Witness

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

Chris Pine

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Max von Sydow