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I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Anxiety English Familiar Man Men Responsibility
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
JOAN OF ARC

Country Die English Except God Hatred Know Nothing Thrown
Getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.
AASIF MANDVI

Bus Chased English Getting Home Kid Praying Stop
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
C. V. RAMAN

Colege Copy English Fortune Good Great Possesses Still Student Translation Work
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Access Acquire English Language Make Person Possible Thing
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Ateemp Being Blanche Boddy Bunch Country Drugstore English Install Instructor Misfortune People Persons Sovxer
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Busy English Polite Time
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLD

Applaud Bird Dawn English Haunted Music Phantom Tree
I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
STEPHEN FRY

Aspect Children Deeply Drive English Insane Kind Literature Love Person Probably Shakespeare Teach Thing University Want
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
JIM MORRISON

Embracing English Horrible Language Phrases Thinking
I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.
AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO

Concerned English Fact Influenced Language Original Quote Spanish Worldview
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Best English Everything Obey Rule Savage Them
The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
PAT CONROY

Complexity English History Intimately Most Origin Powerful Relate Story Tell Word
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

English Flavor Food
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
AGNES REPPLIER

Contemplate Contemplative Country Desire English French Important Mind Movement Travel
There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven’t used it for years!
ALAN JAY LERNER

Country Disappear English Place Use Year
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
AL-WALEED BIN TALAL

Anyone Backward Cannot English Incapable Internet Nowadays Regards Speak Use
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
AL SHARPTON

Before Community Country English Fight Language Look Preach Test
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
VIKRAM SETH

English Language Novel Writing
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
ALAN BENNETT

Call Character English Lack Mean Power Refrain
Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
RICK RIORDAN

Caught Deaf English Just Language Remember Speak
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn’t speak English and I couldn’t speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations – that’s why we got married really quickly.
SEAN CONNERY

Bore Chance Country English Get Golf I Involve Little Married Met My Paly Quickly She Speak Wife
The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
QUENTIN CRISP

English Incompetence Same Sincerity Thing Think
We’re not savages. We’re English.
WILLIAM GOLDING

English Language Savage
I read good. I was an English major.
P. J. O'ROURKE

English Good Major Read
I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
KARL LAGERFELD

English Hardly Language never School Self Taught Teacher Went

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