#english

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#always #among #arabs #arms #been

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#australians #condescended #delved #english #fact

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. ↗

— Fred Savage

#angelou #best #creative #creative writing #emphasis

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish. ↗

— Shakira

#challenge #english #i #i am #major

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#event #first #major #picture #premiere

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#contemporary #english #epic #epic poem #feel

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#dutch #englishman #fairly #families #maintain

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#english-speaking #films #i #important #love