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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
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Almost Artificial Country English Fifty Float Language Odd Other Place Surface Thing
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
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
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
Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
RICK RIORDAN

Caught Deaf English Just Language Remember Speak
The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
AGNES REPPLIER

Country Disliked English Permit Thinking Trail
The German word ‘will’ is the English word ‘want,’ so that’s a little bit of the problem.
JURGEN KLOPP

Bit Country English Little Name Problem Want Word
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMES

Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
Why do elites hate the poor? It’s xenophobia. They don’t know any poor people – except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don’t speak English.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Book Elite English Except People Poor Speak Xenophobia
My dad was an English professor.
BLAKE LIVELY

Dad English Professor
The English game is not faster than the German game.
JURGEN KLOPP

Country English Faster Game
If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Actual Delusion English Look Mean Mind
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Always Among Bardic Country English Figure General Old Peot Prophetic Starin Strange
And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Act Cide English Known Legal Operate Person System Trasnlotyion
I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
SEAN CONNERY

Badly Country English Fluent Now Rather Really Reflect Speak Undoubtfully Wife
I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.
JOAN OF ARC

Among Bold English Go Myself Say Use
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLIS

English Language Program Verb Word
I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
ALAIN PROST

Bit English Maybe Reserve Something Stupid Think
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
BEN JONSON

Conceited English Plain Play
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
SEAN CONNERY

Already Are Ascent Away Cultivate Departure English From You
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Decrease English Estate Gentlemen Hand never Noblemen Preserve Resolution Such
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
ALAN BRADLEY

Classic English Fun Hand Mystery Novel Probably Thought Try Year
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
QUENTIN CRISP

Admit Ask Been Burn Came Candle Country Drama Empty English Girl Out Room School She Taught Teach
I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
ALAINA HUFFMAN

Country Curse Do English More Tend
I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.
QUENTIN CRISP

Allow Availability Build Country English Hospital Only Realize Return Since Something University
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Country English Language Periostin Power Serious Wonder Work

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