#english

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. ↗

— Cher

#big #bridge #english #hello #i

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#deal #english #funny #parents #pretend

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #bit #english #found #irish

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#because #english #feel #i #i feel

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#diaries #english #father #his #norwegian

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#feel #make #people #small #world

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#back #bolivia #came #comfortable #comfortable talking

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#dating

He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. “What’s his name?” the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. “Uh…John Tomkins,” I said. “That’s different,” the receptionist said, writing it down. “He was a pirate,” I said. “I mean Tomkins. I don’t know about the cat. (...) ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#death

And I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#death