1340 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses. Walter Kirn

Great Woman Women Gorgeous Seen Reading Sexy London Seeing Only Had Beauties Misses Know Attractive She Without Got Were Years Truly Julie Lot Impression Taste Just Whether Literature English English Literature Near Two British

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. Walter Legge

Character Singing Neither Liked Nor Story Disliked English

I've never really had the urge to make an English album. Wang Leehom

Never Had Make Urge Really English Album

I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country. Wayne Rooney

Country About Proud Passionate English

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. Wilbur Smith

Best Day Age School Mother Collection Introduction Between Contains Shelf Won Prize American Essay Modern Literature Ashes Little American Literature English Works Keep Copy

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Wilfrid Laurier

Language Could Divinity French Well English English Language

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen. Will Self

Writing Beginning Differences Programs Settle Those Scene Main Between Like Contemporary American Crap Happen Literary Literature American Literature Standardization English

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. Willard Van Orman Quine

Training Word Independent Only Foreigner Social English Appreciate

I grew up in the South Pacific. Basically, my brothers were Guamanian. I spoke words of Guamanian long before I spoke words of English, and so I've seen a lot. You know, I've traveled in places where people don't have the benefits of American life. And so I've seen a lot of stuff. William Hurt

Life You People Words Benefits Long Seen Before Brothers Spoke Stuff Know Were South Lot Up American Where Grew Pacific Places American Life English Traveled Basically

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. William Labov

Language Minority Research Changes Completing Both Through Mainstream Supported Am North North America America Communities English English Language Mapping Now

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. Wilmer Valderrama

Speak First Country Know How Came English

In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years. Wim Wenders

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans. Winston Marshall

Good People Pretending Long Long Line Line American Being English English People

I think some of the English players at Chelsea run the club, pretty much. Wojciech Szczesny

Club Think Run Some Pretty Chelsea Much English Players

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. Yael Grobglas

Home Speak Complicated School Drama Drama School Back Everything Though Something More Could Almost Almost Everything Since Been Than Expected Did Hebrew Languages Speaking English Fascinating Whole Even Switch Career

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words. Yael Naim

Music Me You Words Language Free Live Imagination Paris Poetic French Limits Just Where Really English Play

Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands. Yasmine Hamdan

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. Yayoi Kusama

Art Home You Book Old Country Books Find About Had Countryside Impressed Georgia Very American Shop Information Old Books Little Avant-Garde Much Really English Found Her

Just because I take my music international doesn't mean I have to sing in English. I will continue to sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Tamil. I want to represent my own country through its own languages. Yo Yo Honey Singh

Music Will Country Own My Own Through Take Sing Hindi Because Continue Represent Just Just Because Want Mean Languages English International

I want to, when I say things on TV, to talk to the people in English. Yoel Romero

People Say TV Talk Want English Things

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

You Crime Thinking Comic Than Bigger English Novel Right

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control. Zadie Smith

Time Writing Long Long Time Big Fall Control Bit Definitely Having More Tends Advantage Baggy Categories Fairly Tidy Controlled Fan Little Little Bit Epic English Novel Two

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English. Zhang Yimou

Speak Ten Ten Years Had Over Always Years English

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