All Quotes

English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
‐‐ Ben Miles

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
‐‐ Michael Caine

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.
‐‐ Alexis Wright

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
‐‐ Bai Ling

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

English is not my first language.
‐‐ Camila Alves

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
‐‐ Yael Naim

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
‐‐ Richard Lederer

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.
‐‐ Mia Hamm

English music is white - it evades everything.
‐‐ Edward Elgar

English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.
‐‐ Leon Uris

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
‐‐ Rachel Johnson

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

English people have seen me get through scandals.
‐‐ George Michael

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.
‐‐ Arsene Wenger

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
‐‐ James Fenton

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
‐‐ Bernhard von Bulow

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
‐‐ Jim Crace

'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
‐‐ John Cleese

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
‐‐ E. B. White

English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
‐‐ Ian Harding

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
‐‐ John Wycliffe

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
‐‐ Ovid

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
‐‐ Roy Barnes

Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
‐‐ Ralph Marston

Enjoy every moment.
‐‐ Milo Ventimiglia

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
‐‐ James Dyson

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
‐‐ Seneca

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.
‐‐ James De La Vega

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
‐‐ Victoria Moran

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
‐‐ Marquis de Condorcet