Top 1200 Modern English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

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

I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

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

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

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.

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

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.

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.

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in 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.

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.

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

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

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

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

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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

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

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

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

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

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.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

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

I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

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

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.

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

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.

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.

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

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.