#english

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#million #more #people #rest #seems

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#culture #english #i #just #me

We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#between #difference #dress #english #how

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own. ↗

— Michael Caine

#always #awareness #british #cold #cry

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. ↗

— Michael Caine

#exactly #opposite #speech #texas

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain. ↗

— Theresa May

#come #course #english #get #place

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#born #country #english #feel #france

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#argue #could #different #downward #english