Top 1200 Speak English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was the kid who didn't speak English, with a violin and ballroom dance shoes.

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

You never know what little idea or joke, what flame flickering really quickly, will become a song. That first idea, it can come any time. If it's in Spanish, you go on in Spanish. If it's in French, French. If it's in English, English. Or Portuguese. I'll try to do my best. I like Italian, though I don't speak it much.

I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class both on the pitch and outside. Nobody had his right foot. I would love to speak with him, but in Spanish because I don't speak English.

I learned how to speak English watching television.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

My mom said to me: 'Sonny, you need to study English.' And I replied to her: 'Mom, I do not need it. I'm going to be horse-boy, would I speak English with horses?' Mom said: 'Darling, you need to.' But I did not listen to my mother.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I don't speak cockney and I don't pretend to come from that part of the world. For the longest time the English, like the Beatles and so on sounded American. "She loves you yeah yeah yeah!" All of the sudden you sound American. It doesn't work that way with Americans who try to sing English. It's not convincing. If I say "Footy" and "tele" and "Brissy" and "Sydney" and "Simmo" it's not convincing.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Who says I don't know how to speak in English? So what if it has a Punjabi touch?

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

It's just nice to be able to communicate and be able to identify with a lot of different cultures. I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my English and find more words to describe what I want to say and also soften my tone. It was quite stiff from 20 years of speaking German, so when I started speaking more English, oh my god, my tongue was like: 'Argh'!

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

I learnt French in school and can already speak English.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

Bottom line: this is the United States. And we speak English here.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I speak German, Turkish and English perfectly. And I can communicate in Russian.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

What happens when you speak positively? When you speak positively there is no negative left to express and then there's a gap. And that gap creates the super-positive. And that, in English, is what we call God. Therefore, cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

Trying to speak correct English is not easy.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Samassi Abou don’t speak the English too good.

With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.

You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!

When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

I like Singapore; it is very clean. People speak English and are warm.