Top 1200 Spoken English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

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

Make no mistake... 'South Park' is brutal. It takes subjects that aren't supposed to be touched at all and handles them roughly. It's true that it's crude and rude and disgusting, even in its treatment of subjects that are supposed to be solemn - spoken of only in polite whispers and polished platitudes if they're ever spoken of at all.

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

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

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

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

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 think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.

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.

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

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.

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

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

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

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.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.

And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.

Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.

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.

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

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

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

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

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

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.

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

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