#english

I translated Beatles songs for my English class. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#beatles songs #class #english #i #songs

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it? ↗

— Henry Lawson

#australia #countryman #englishman #every #finds

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#always #bad #bad boy #boy #cup

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful. ↗

— Chris Martin

#actually #always #being #embarrassed #english

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it. ↗

— Chris Martin

#english #how #i #maybe #negative

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#been #culture #eliot #english #example

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#both #bush #english #figure #gave

I've always felt very English. ↗

— David Hockney

#english #felt #i #very