Quotes of: English-school Keyword

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

Gyorgy Ligeti

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Gloria Swanson

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

George Woodcock

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Chow Yun-Fat

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

James Fenton

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

Otto: I love robbing the English, they're so polite.

A Fish Called Wanda

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): You're an unusual cop. Lee: Well, you're an unusual killer.

The Killer

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Arrest me later! Fight now!

The Killer

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Stephen Moyer

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

John Deacon

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

America Ferrera

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Anil Kapoor

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Aristotle Onassis

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

Alain Prost

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Bill Bryson

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe