English Quotes - page 11

Laistry.... I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians. (Rick Riordan)
Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. "Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas. View quote
Rick Riordan
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name. View quote
Rob Sheffield
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. View quote
Sophie Marceau
So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. View quote
Sophie Marceau
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. View quote
Sophie Marceau
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
.. The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married. View quote
Susanna Clarke
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)
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law - in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy. View quote
Philip K. Dick
I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us? View quote
Philippa Gregory
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.' View quote
Bong Joon-ho
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
English majors understand human nature better than economists do. View quote
Jane Smiley
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society. View quote
John Grogan
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. View quote
John McGahern
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. View quote
John Hume
We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor