#english

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#american #american accent #band #because #disappointed

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#english #literature #study #university #career

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#american #american movies #because #being #cheap

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

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing. ↗

— John Deacon

#american #american music #around #beatles #before

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#eating #english #i #lot #people

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#english #film #i #i love #jude

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#eloquence #english #fact #in fact #inevitably

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language