Top 1200 Standard English Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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 think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.

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.

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

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

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise in standard of living is the increased consumption of animal products, which directly correlates with the rise in heart disease.

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

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

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.

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.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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 always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

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

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 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.

Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.

Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray’s body to open the back passenger-side door. “Yeah, well, I’m not your standard enforcer.

We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.

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 spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.

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?

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.

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.