1340 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good. Zhang Yimou

Good Ang Ang Lee Educated His West Lee English

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films. Zhang Ziyi

Work Work Hard Films More Make Learn After Hard English

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. Zhang Ziyi

Time Cinema Better Language First Think Has-Been Some About Rising More Perhaps Learn Known First Thing Becoming Been The First Thing China Then English Grasp Exposure Internationally Thing Chances

English is not my first language. Zhu Zhu

Language First English

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent. Katie Melua

Speak Before Well Accent Learned Irish Northern English Belfast

It’s part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent. Natalia Reyes

Challenge Only Part Accent Mexican Spanish Speaking English Actor

There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead of 'don't. They have to say 'will not' instead of 'won't.' People are speaking in a way that is not accessible or normal. And people didn't ever speak like that. Steven Knight

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She was intensely reserved and private, and seldom showed what she was feeling. Max Boot

Respect Mother Feeling Birth Alike Spirit Russian Seldom Crucial She Private Were Been Intensely May English Reserved

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. Salman Rushdie

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. Maya Angelou

As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone. P. J. O'Rourke

Freedom Free Nation Everyone Claimed Has-Been Arabs Arguably Baghdad Another Been Kuwait Off Itself Survived Turks Turn English Playing

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. Douglas Coupland

Business People Phone Past No Idea Only Advantage Idea Major Most Answer Politely How Been Centuries English Two

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. John Walker Lindh

Months Several Arabic Spoken Been Native Speakers Speaking English

I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever. Bill Cosby

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield, but I couldn't have been prepared for Rangers. I was a fan as a kid and attended a lot of European nights at Ibrox. I knew the club were big. But not how big. Graeme Souness

Big Club Nights Sold Kid Rangers Record Fee Knew Attended Between How Were Been Lot Won Cups Fan Clubs Then English European Prepared Liverpool Two

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background. Michael McIntyre

Money Background Hungarian Some Given Voice Come Like Know Does Sound Canadian Upper-Class English Dad Mum

For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways. Roger Scruton

Government Home Wind National Speed Our Valleys Bent Has-Been High Reminder Countryside Hills Identity Island Been National Identity Loved Icon Centuries English English Countryside Railways Two

Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things. Jake Hager

You Speak Everybody See Russian Wrestling Performers How Go Cultures Influence Different Biggest Whether Chinese Different Cultures Spanish Biggest Things Really English Cool Things Societies

If you cut me I bleed Birmingham. Others would say it's being a woman, but coming from Birmingham is the single most important part of my identity. I'm not always sure I feel English or British, but I always feel like a Brummie. Jess Phillips

Me You Woman Important Single Birmingham Others Say Would I Feel Part Bleed Feel Like Most Identity Sure Important Part Always Coming Being Cut English British

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English. Salman Rushdie

Both Mothers Were Children English

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