#english

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

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

— E. B. White

#education #english #getting #judgment #like

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. ↗

— Patrick White

#countryside #english #english school #explore #four

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#end #english #funny #how #i

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. ↗

— Robin Williams

#english #get #himself #language #like

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#basically #english #i #ideas #interested

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. ↗

— George Woodcock

#called #discipline #early #english #english school

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. ↗

— Alexander Woollcott

#calm #english #extraordinary #flying #great