Quotes About English

I watch loads of football; whenever I am not playing, I am at home watching matches, including the English league.

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Lke so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

You know, for a painter, I was an assistant, and then he knew a lot of movie people. So, how do you say in English, I was an extra. I'm in a lot of Danish pictures as an extra.

Before I came to Italy to play for Milan in 2007, I saw in the papers that my name was mentioned in connection with some English clubs.

Appearing in 'Death in Paradise' was my very first time acting in English.

Any time an English band came to Paris we went to the concert. All the French crowds were really bad and really blase. We were the only ones wanting to have fun.

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

I'm not sure about English football to be honest with you. There's a lot of politics down there and I'm not sure it's just about your attributes on the park. If it was I'd still be down there.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?

It is a race now whether the Bolsheviks double-cross the Americans, or the Americans the English – because they are certainly not very united – or whether the English double-cross both the others

Esos innovadores del teatro, Jerzy Grotowski, el director polaco de teatro experimental y autor de Hacia un teatro pobre, Peter Brook, el director inglés, y el Living Theater, el grupo de teatro experimental fundado por Julian Beck

English decadence as a cause of the war, which had first appeared in the war's early months, and had been a commonplace of English war talk since then. The war was to have been the Condy's Fluid that would cleanse society of its decadence;

The noun 'spirituality' in the Middle Ages simply meant the clergy. Subsequently it first appeared in reference to 'the spiritual life' during the 17th century. It disappeared for a time but re-established itself at the end of the 19th century in French, of which the modern English word 'spirituality' is a translation.

Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.

I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.