My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!
I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.
I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.
I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind hisher turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.