Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
Aristotle Onassis
LookFindPriestEnglishWhoLike
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone
KingConstitutionWrongEnglish
Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.
Antonio Munoz Molina
LettersPermanentPresenceEnglish
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
Samuel P. Huntington
IndependenceWhiteBritishEnglish
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
Alice Waters
FoodThinkWayInspiredEnglish
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.
Paul Dano
CollegeYearWritePoetEnglish
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
Wim Wenders
AmazingOverYearsAudienceEnglish
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
Jim Crace
StandYouOakSurveyEnglishTales
It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.
Nick Hornby
MusicYouWantKindListenEnglish
I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
Prince Royce
MeNobodyAlwaysEnglishJustHeard
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
John Burroughs
LiteratureNewOrderEnglishHe
I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
Marcus Mumford
EmotionsTalkEnglishVeryAbout
It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
Phil Collins
ProudDrummerEnglishVeryOften
Icelanders love to speak English. Their English is a joy to hear because of how colloquial and idiomatic it is, but they appreciate your efforts with Icelandic.
John Grant
LoveJoySpeakAppreciateEnglish
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid
NameChoiceIslandHavanaEnglish
Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.
Peter Abrahams
WomenBlackEndLivedEnglishMost
My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.
John Motson
TimeHimAlwaysEntertainingEnglish
I get better coverage on my Spanish stations than I do on my English stations.
Gene Green
BetterEnglishGetSpanishThan
I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
Seth MacFarlane
LoveGodHillOfficeUsEnglish
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
John McWhorter
GreatBlackCallEnglishManyThem
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
ConstitutionEnglishChinesePlain
I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are.
Tim Curry
ChildrenKidEnglishFanMostHuge
Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.
Robert J. Fisher
WorkSchoolWriteHardWellEnglish
I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.
Daryl Hall
FamilyYearsLivedEnglishEngland
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