Top 1200 Broken English Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let me give you a clue. Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together, we picked up each other's accents. And we spoke some broken English. When I got into the service, people used to think I was from a foreign country.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

Ive just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.