No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
