#english

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you. ↗

— Jason Derulo

#back #barely #crowd #english #parts

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. ↗

— John Gielgud

#course #doubt #english #figuratively #gentlemen

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#enjoys #except #himself #never #noble

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#anything #audience #easy #english #godlike

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#arts #back #bank #bank robbery #being

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#blonde #changed #could #english #get

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community