The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Almásy: How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common word such as 'castle' is a French loan word, for example; and the whole romance tradition comes from the F...
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdl...
I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.
'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.
I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won...
I was an elementary school teacher.
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello
My scary strange English shall only be counted as my English problem.
My master's degree was in English literature.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
