#english

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#electricity #english #idea #life #like

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#economist #english #ever #gentleman #his

I excelled in English while I was at school. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#excelled #i #school #while

English music is white - it evades everything. ↗

— Edward Elgar

#everything #music #white

I think my English is bad. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#english #i #i think #think

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#around #back #bbc #china #cutting

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either. ↗

— Joel Siegel

#else #english #film #filmmakers #good

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.' ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#came #depp #english #first #first time

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contribution #english #understatement

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ↗

— Ray Davies

#elsewhere #englishmen #go #i #many