#english

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#english #first #i #language #like

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#already #box #constantly #english #had

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#am #american #britain #choice #english

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#bilingual #english #hockey #hockey players #key players

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#english #english language #i #i love #language

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad. ↗

— Bill Forsyth

#elder #englishmen #married #sisters #two

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA. ↗

— James Franco

#english #film #going #graduate #i

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen