Pastoral Resources

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

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

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

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.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters.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.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.