#english

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#could #dad #english #experience #guitar

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difficult #easy #english #more #much

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

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#english #had #i #i always #over

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism. ↗

— Michael York

#bits #degree #done #english #enjoyed

I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#country #english #figures #historical #i

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗