Quotes About English

I don't follow English soccer because it's become a game for hooligans.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Classic English liberalism of the sort that 'The Economist' was founded to champion and still espouses is about open societies and free markets.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.

My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.

'English Vinglish' is simple; that's why people like it. The film has simplicity and sensitivity. There is no melodrama. Some things have been conveyed just through expressions and no lines.

I am up for anything, but my favorite show in the whole world is this English series, 'Skins.' It would be awesome to be able to go on that somehow.

If anyone comes along," said Miss Brodie, "in the course of the following lesson, remember that it is the hour for English grammar. Meantime I will tell you a little of my life when I was younger than I am now, though six years older than the man himself.

Under the assumption that it would attract less attention than a BIC language, the conspirators conducted telephone conversations in English--broken English, to be exact, with one tense, no articles, and two pronunciations, both wrong(129).

She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.

She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with buildings, parks, and houses from my imagination.

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains. Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. My Sookie hid a corpse? I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun. Where did you learn that term, Northman? I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

My grandfather, who is English, was a member of a gentleman's club called the Caledonian, which you can only be a member of if you have Scottish lineage.

In the English 4-4-2 you have to change your mentality from a winger to a left midfielder, having to help your full-back.

I am very happy to be here in Manchester. It's a real joyful moment for me. I've always dreamt of playing in English football. When Manchester United was mentioned I didn't have to think twice.

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English.

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.