#english

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#englishman #i #like #sound

Since I learned English, I've become a motormouth! ↗

— Ana Beatriz Barros

#english #i #learned #since

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#english #like #love #makes #may

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook. ↗

— Bruce Bennett

#am #both #english #europe #even

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. ↗

— Christian Slater

#disregard #english #factual #history #hollywood

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#draining #english #imagine #months #patient

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#english #everything #furniture #heavy #i