Quotes of: English Keyword

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): I felt someone walk over my grave.

The Killer

Daniel Hochleitner: You are the Yankee they talk about? John Book: I thought I was the English.

Witness

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

Chris Pine

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Max von Sydow

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Germaine Greer

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Stephen Rea

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence.

Wilfrid Laurier

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Wally Schirra

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Yaya Toure

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

Zia Haider Rahman

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

Natalie Massenet

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Olivier Martinez

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Fidelity: Poems

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Rupert Murdoch

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Vivien Leigh

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.

A Marriage for Meghan

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

Motherland