1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English. Karen Civil

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. Karen Maitland

Family Think Slightly Though Members Kings Counted Heads French Than Family Members Fewer Middle Middle Ages Ages English Actually

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. Karl Lagerfeld

Teacher School Never Had French Self-Taught German English Even Hardly

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Karl Marx

Revolution Spirit Generalization Material Revolutionary Lack English

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. Kate DiCamillo

Training Reading Bachelor Had Lot Arts Formal Which Means English

Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap. Kate Klise

I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. That's the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don't think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You've always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday! Kate Moss

Love Birthday Me You Natural Hair Big Think Bit Those Though Dresses Knee Beauties Like Look Most Until Occasions Always Got Julie Sixties Experimenting Jane Wore English Number

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. Kate Reardon

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Katherine Dunn

Culture Women Believe Ancient Booths Featured Until Boxers Boxing Were Centuries Skilled English Among Early

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it. Katherine Dunn

Death Future Day Every Day Revenge Pure Year Own White Every Sugar Teeth About My Own Properties Consume Qualities Stiff Bloody Mountain Square Lip Upper Theory English Rotting Petrified

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should. Katie Hopkins

People Speak Country Our Yes Should Working English

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother. Kaya Scodelario

My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job. Kaya Scodelario

Mother Amazing Job Herself London She Taught Moved English Found

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English. Kaya Scodelario

Myself First Before Consider Brazilian Then English

I was born in London. In a lot of ways I'm English, but I have this Iranianness, this culture instilled by my parents, by my family. Kayvan Novak

Family Culture Parents Ways London Born Instilled Lot English

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Kazuo Ishiguro

Great Detective Fondness Had Always Fiction Dorothy Agatha Christie English

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys. Kazuo Ishiguro

Films Ranger Bits Favorite TV TV Series John Lone Lone Ranger Had Robert Well Smith Learned Idolized Been Cowboy Cowboys Famous Loved Which Japan Them Used English Fuller Series Watch

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky. Ken Stott

Teacher Me You Age Father Move On Enough Once Would Would-Be Rings Could Had Supposed Read Advised Lord Lord Of The Rings Move Hobbit Then English Who English Teacher

Musicals are written in English, and then we import them to Japan. When we translate them into Japanese, the sounds of the language are completely different. The Japanese language is not the best for singing, in terms of sound. Ken Watanabe

Best Language Singing Musicals Written Import Terms Sound Sounds Different Japan Japanese Them Translate Then English

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. Kenichi Fukui

Work Nature Better Chemistry Related More Main Concern Reactions Chemical Chemical Reactions Subjects Than Which Theory English Roughly Publications

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. Kenneth Baker

Big Distinction Between French Said Always Intellectual Intelligent English

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. Kenneth Branagh

Love Language Fire Way Visceral Would Some Shakespeare More Through Part Feel Freer Am Cultural Irish Than Repository Current Being Mean Planet Shot English Why Utterly Elite Resist British

I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies. Kenneth Branagh

Live Countryside Surrounded English English Countryside

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English. Kerry Greenwood

Best Speak World School Met Corners Best Friend Had She Learn Because Friend Greek Children Which English Basic

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