Quotes of: English-people Keyword

Leeloo: Hi. Korben Dallas: Oh, so you speak English now. Leeloo: Yes. I learned.

The Fifth Element

Hyman Roth: I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English.

The Godfather: Part II

Gandhi: No Indian must be treated as the English treat us. We must remove untouchability from our hearts and from our lives.

Gandhi

Bill: You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!

Gangs of New York

Marcus Brody: Is there anyone here who speaks English? Or maybe even ancient Greek?

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

[about his gun] Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Easy to pick up, hard to put down.

The Killer

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I always leave one bullet, either for myself or for my enemy.

The Killer

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): We're the same. Lee: No, we're not the same! I uphold the law and you break it!

The Killer

[Japanese version with English subtitles] Jiji: [Jiji's paws are covered with flour] At this rate, I'll be a white cat by the morning.

Kiki's Delivery Service

Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears; in America they haven't used it for years.

My Fair Lady

Glen Lantz: What did you do to your arm? Nancy: I burned it in English class

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Maxim de Winter: [to his wife at breakfast] Have a look at "The Times"; there's a thrilling article on what's the matter with English cricket!

Rebecca

Private Cox: [beating up Mason] English prick. I tell you my old man was Irish?

The Rock

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

Hugh Jackman

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

Kenichi Fukui

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Rowan Atkinson

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

Zadie Smith

I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I could teach English and Drama - because I'm not thick, surprisingly enough.

Sarah Douglas

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

George Edward Woodberry

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Edward Sapir

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

Wilbur Smith