1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid. Alessandro Nivola

Films Monty Kid Monty Python Python Huge Up Fanatic Loving English Grown Grown-Up

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday. Alex Kingston

Time People Every Every Time Driver Reminded Know Most Catherine Welsh American English Shown Even Dr British

I think, for the English accent, we don't say our Rs, contrary to a standard American accent. Alex Roe

Think Our Say Accent Contrary American American Accent Standard English

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? Alexander Herzen

Possible Would Triumphant More Parliament Houses Spot Still Than Done While Stand English Forward March Two

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that. Alexandre Pato

You Problem Tough Think Would Would-Be Physical Football Part Like Ball Ready Very Get English English Football Here Need Defenders

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. Alfred de Musset

Cause Understand Always Sensation English Among Things

Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.' Ali Smith

Great Me Old Word Sky Country Clever Trees Back Circles Tops About Myriad How Covered Provide Forests Get Meant English Creatures Homes Inner Started

The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit. Alice Morse Earle

Women Too Unknown Plentiful Though Colonial Records Habit Shape Annoying Learn Scold Were America Irritating Far English Bridle

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English. Alice Oswald

Life You Writing Relax Nothing Rage Complacency Kicks Relaxing About Poem Area Head Like Particularly Friction Lot Afford Any Senses Means Your English Awake Keep

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. Alice Walker

Tea Picnic Indoors Really English

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. Alison Goldfrapp

Music Folk Folk Music Much Really English Appealing

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels. Alison Moyet

Soul Singing Style Torture Vocalist More Fact Major Dealing Always Been Led Referred Led Zeppelin Labels Fitzgerald Than Closer Blues Influenced Shouting English Zeppelin Ella Ella Fitzgerald

I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?' Alison Moyet

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. Alison Owen

You College Way London Read Narrative Go Were Story Literature Realised Interested Then English English Literature Film University

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family. Allegra Huston

Family Me Tired Age People Met Sister Own Live Other Claimed Brother Brother And Sister London My Own Instantly Houses Around Ready Moved English Who Shuffle

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been. Allegra Huston

Character Me People Space Feeling Sense Other Seemed Self Outsider Supporting Also Occupied Comforted Dogged Been Familiar American Where Which Should England English Lives Right

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. Ally Condie

Teacher Time Good Guitar Husband Economics Met Side Analytical Addition One Of The Things About Poetry He Stuff Liked Wrote Him Always Go His Mathematical Lots Very Decided English English Teacher Things Played

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are! Alma Gluck

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I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago. Amanda Hocking

Class Writing School College Community Every Took Local Out High Classes High School Had Taken Attended Dropped Also Years Years Ago Available Community College English Workshop Two

It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not! Amelia Warner

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