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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.
I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.
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? — © Alan Jay Lerner
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?
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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.
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
English fans and the English atmospheres are special.
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.
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!
I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work. — © Vladimir Putin
The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.
Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.
English people are always surprised I'm English.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
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?
Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods
They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain.
I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.
To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.
I wouldn't have any fears about coming to England because I have played against English sides in the Champions League and studied the English game.
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most... are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.
I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.
Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
You have so many modern goalkeepers, and they're all different. There's not just one type of modern goalkeeper.
There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel.
I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place. — © Mark Twain
English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.
People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
My English is actually getting worse. We talk Spanish at home and switch to English only when we need it. Like when we go to the bank to get some money.
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.
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.
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.
We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.
I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English. — © Stefflon Don
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.
England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
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.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.
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