Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
Steve Earle

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.
Michael Bloomberg

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
Robertson Davies

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch

If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
Joseph P. Kennedy

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
Martin C. Smith

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation.
Adolf Galland

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Andrzej Wajda

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
Aishwarya Rai

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Alexander Woollcott

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Amy Tan

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
Enrique Iglesias