Top 1200 Spanish And English Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I'd listen to Spanish music - and I don't even speak Spanish, but Hector Lavoe is amazing - we listened to French music like Edith Piaf. She's tight. I like cool vocal inflections; I like cool sounds. I pretty much listen to anything I think is good.

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

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

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

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal 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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

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'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.

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

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

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.