My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
Mila Kunis

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Stephen Greenblatt

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.
Spencer Bachus

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
Olivier Martinez

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
Ezra Stiles

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
Andy Partridge

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Joseph Hume

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Alex Cox

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

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
Sun Myung Moon

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
Alain Prost

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
Thomas Jane

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
George Crumb

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
Bill Condon

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Bernard Pivot

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Harry Seidler

Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Cornelia Funke

I do love cricket - it's so very English.
Sarah Bernhardt