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President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

Dennis Miller

People

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

Ismail Merchant

English

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Roddy McDowall

English

Play

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.