Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller
OceanRoadOthersMayEnglishOnly
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.
Bjork
BirdsYouMarsEatTellEnglish
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
Christian Bale
WorldFamousEnglishOurDentistry
All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.
Azim Premji
LookInterviewHiringEnglishDeal
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
Colin Wilson
IdeasAfraidEnglishInterested
By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'
Alexander Chee
PeaceWarEnglishAvailableRead
I like English spirit.
Claudio Ranieri
SpiritEnglishLike
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Alan Rickman
ThinkNervousActorEnglishAccent
My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
Arizona Muse
MotherDesertSheAlwaysEnglish
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen
KissFeetSayMeanHeadEnglish
Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina
BecauseEnglishBeenBooksItalian
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.
Sara Sheridan
NeverSeenWellEnglishScotland
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
Alison Goldfrapp
MusicEnglishFolk MusicMuchFolk
I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
Paul Giamatti
SchoolActingGraduate SchoolEnglish
The English are very exotic to me.
William Klein
MeEnglishExoticVery
I'm English. All we do is blush.
Joanna Coles
BlushEnglish
I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.
Nick Jonas
EnglishWouldLikeReadReally
The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
Prince Royce
ThinkWaySomethingEnglishSing
There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
Joely Richardson
AmericanProblemEnglishStillTaken
With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.
Lee Hsien Loong
SpeakDoorsYouOpenEnglish
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.
Susan Hill
ShortClassicTurnGhostEnglish
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
MusicAmericanAlwaysEnglishShift
In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically.
James Bobin
ChildrenHistoryComedySeenEnglish
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
Penelope Cruz
New YorkNewStudyEnglishBallet
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