1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. Harrison Birtwistle

Music Me People Writing Say People Say More Like Know Becoming Maybe English

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada. Harry Johnston

First Attack Came Canada English

The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods. Harry Redknapp

Change Training About Football He New Talk Arrival His Methods Very Quickly Revolutionary Successful Certainly English English Football Suddenly

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. Harry Seidler

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it. Harshvardhan Rane

Mom Family Speak Half Telugu Brought Hindi Got Heard Up Hang English Exposed Dad Her

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. Haruki Murakami

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have. Hayley Atwell

My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. Helen Mirren

Mother Half Say Would Russian Bottom English Dad

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way. Henry Cavill

Day You Speak End Of The Day Will Long Back Way All Day Find Takes Accent Talking Because Dialogue Doing End Effort American American Accent Shooting Often Fiancee Just Just Because Used Speaking English Bring

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish. Henry Cejudo

Speak Spanish Bilingual English

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. Henry Lawson

Eyes Independence Become Our Respected Extremes Carry Shall Never Individuality Study Merit Until Understood Accorded Than Hitherto Closer Us English Asserting Sufficient Consequence

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. Henry Louis Gates

Remember Literature English English Literature

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. Henry Walter Bates

People Victory Anarchy City Given Except Coloured French Were Province Up American Proclaimed Elated Whites English Residents Slaughter

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. Hermann Ebbinghaus

Day Needs Learning Heart First Half Relation Learned Were Repeating Repetitions Than Shortest Less English Series Amplification Syllable Necessary

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards. Hima Das

Good Fine Per Normal Maybe Just Cent Standards English

It's hard for me to perform in English. Hiroyuki Sanada

Me Perform Hard English

As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English publisher because they'd been lukewarm about it and not offered enough money. The American publisher didn't like it. The Canadian publisher didn't like it... I'd been bleeding readers since my first novel, and I could see my own career going down. Howard Jacobson

Money Finished First Own Down Changed Despair Enough Enough Money See About My Own Could Soon Bleeding Since Like Readers Because Been Question Offered Canadian American Going English Novel Lukewarm Publisher Career

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially. Howard Jacobson

Life Man Better Made Reading Saved Exactly See Steadily Morally Argued Days Least Reverence Lecturer Lit English Whole

Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer, he's who I hear all the time. And he's almost indistinguishable now from the English language. I have no sense of what Shakespeare is like. I have no sense of the personality that is Shakespeare. I think, alone among writers, I don't know who he is. Howard Jacobson

Alone Time Personality Language Reading Sense Think Back Shakespeare Indistinguishable No Sense Writer Writers He Almost Since Like Know Always Hear Been Began Sitting Certainly English Who English Language Now Among

The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game. Howard Wilkinson

Game Change World Remember Meeting Only Date Football Attend Combined Occasion Years Ferguson Sir Did Cancel Manager Manchester Manchester United Move Cannot Board English Companies English Football United Largest Appointment Alex

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French. Hugh Grant

Saying Good You Strange White Difficult Worm Someone French Been Lines Quite Lair Spanish Translated Speaks English Who Film

At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards. Hugh Grant

School Say Would Would-Be Almost Weird Parts Boy Were Ladies Lady Which Mean Standards English Even Play Actually Played

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out. Hugh Jackman

Nature School Way Out Inside Inside-Out More Know Known Method Continue Mixture American Which Working Use American Way English English School

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