Quotes of: English Keyword

My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

Ian Harding

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Idris Elba

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

Margaret Cho

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Edmund Waller

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Cornelia Funke

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Christian Lacroix

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

David Ogden Stiers

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

Emmanuel Jal

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Bernard Pivot

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

Harry Browne

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

Damon Albarn

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Denholm Elliott

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

Julian Fellowes

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

Omar Sy

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I've changed - I don't want to kill.

The Killer

Jamie: You learned English? Aurelia: Just in cases.

Love Actually

[his only line in English] Yen: Where the fuck you been?

Ocean's Eleven

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Jack Prelutsky