I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
Tony Dungy

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John Hume

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Billy Sunday

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
David Brin

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
Bill Bryson

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
Mario Lemieux

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.
Rowan Atkinson

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
John Cleese

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster

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

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
F. Murray Abraham

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred von Richthofen

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Manfred von Richthofen

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Manfred von Richthofen

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
Sandra Cisneros