You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!
The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain. ' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient. ' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
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.
This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.