#english

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. ↗

— Robert Englund

#english #facility #great #historic #horror

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. ↗

— Colin Firth

#country #denying #english #english people #exist

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

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#english #make #may #ocean #only

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

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

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