I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?
There [is] a feeling of recognition, as of meeting an old friend, which comes to us all in the face of great artistic experiences. I had the same experience when I first heard an English folksong, when I first saw Michelangelo's Day and Night, when I suddenly came upon Stonehenge or had my first sight of New York City - the intuition that I had been there already.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
If we sang in English, we would have global No. 1s, and no one would say anything.
Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.
The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
The most important word in the English language is hope.
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam. "
I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.