#english

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#did #english #english major #go #i

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#being #conquerors #contests #english-speaking #field

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#done #either #english #example #for example

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#behalf #cannot #emotional #emotions #english

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#happy #i #performance #sometimes #think

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#because #english #exactly #found #i

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. ↗

— Karl Marx

#generalization #lack #material #revolution #revolutionary

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? ↗

— Theresa May

#anyone #build #challenges #children #country

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#big #business #craft #english #generalization