The English language is direct, unapologetic, and wonderfully amoral. Italian has a beautiful sound, but you cannot help but feel that you are always dealing with ghosts from the past and the looming dark presence of the Vatican.
I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?
I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood-' You know this poem, right? 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could, to where it bent in the undergrowth-" "I loved that poem. But I remember thinking to myself: Why? How come you can't travel both? That seemed really unfair to me.
There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.
I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly. " But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous. "
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.
Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline - the usual concept of it - doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.
the question now was. . . whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]. . . was to be maintained in that freedom. . . for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.