Quotes About English

I am enjoying playing English football. It is very beautiful. With every game I play, I feel more comfortable.

I understand there is a lot of pressure on managers to get instant results, but English players know the league, and for them to be given the opportunity and the time as well, there is plenty of talent out there.

It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about change and its lack of encoded rules. Then, together with them, we should look closely at how such people's speech and writing diverges from the kind of English that they would like to acquire.

What is good with the English clubs is that they respect the old players.

I have a very English coaching philosophy.

I like to collect DVDs of most English films.

I am working on my English skills that will help me on the pitch. Communication between each other makes our job much easier.

It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

I stay in my bubble; I concentrate on the football. I work, and I try to learn English as quickly as possible.

I used to watch English football on TV when I was younger in Brazil. I already knew it was a dynamic, competitive and fast way of playing. When I got here, I just confirmed all of that.

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.