Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
I do not speak the English so good, but then I speak the driving very well.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a clear record. You've got to get to the back of the line behind other people who have come here legally or even waiting legally.
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.
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.
A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.
The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists. A very early point in American law Chief Justice John Marshall is asked to decide the status of Indian tribes. And what he does. He calls them savages who lack the same rights as the white people who came over here, the Europeans, and colonized their land under this, what many Americans might regard as an obscure legal doctrine called the Doctrine of Discovery. But it is still the most important doctrine in American constitutional law.
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles. ”
Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.