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.
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.
Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)
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.
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
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.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
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.
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.
