Pastoral Resources

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

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.

The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

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.

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

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

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.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.