Quotes About English

Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic bugbear, but few of us would want to freeze our mother tongue.

I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.

Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.

English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.

Wilshere had a lot of physical problems and is a player I always appreciated, but he's unusual. He combines English grit with Spanish technique. I like him a lot.

It's an unwritten rule that when you move to California and you're an English person, you have to drive a convertible, and you have to bank with Wells Fargo because they have a stage coach on their bank card.

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.

Given a chance, I would love to host a television show as I have good communication skills and am fluent in Hindi, English and Urdu.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

The argument that there was a social pathology of the English Reformation, that there were fundamental changes in English society and the English church which made the Reformation inevitable, is academically stone dead.

I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father in our sari-sari store. I also asked him if I could go back to school so I could learn English and improve myself.

I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.

I really like live football. I like the English style, which is very straightforward.

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.

If I'm in the English countryside and get on my bicycle, I see what sort of strange inbred rural locals I can snap.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

His winning opener: 'Hello, English cycleman friend! I have 67 years.

John Mitchel's famous declaration that God sent the blight but the English created the Famine.

Ah, college, when you could occasionally get a date through the judicious application of English-major bullshit.

Of course now I realise I was wrong to take what the Irish books said at face value anyway; the Irish would deliberately paint a black picture of the English and indeed the English government would encourage that, and vice versa; anything to emphasise the difference between the two nations' identities, even if in geopolitical terms they are firm allies.