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Learning English Quotes (page 2)

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. Evelyn Waugh
I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy. Pat Conroy
School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts? Ray Bradbury
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them. Jose Mourinho
Edward Gibbon quote: "My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are..."
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
Cornelia Funke quote: "Every German child learns to speak English in school."
Every German child learns to speak English in school. Cornelia Funke
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. Max von Sydow
Clarence Darrow quote: "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you..."
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow
Vanessa Paradis quote: "I could sing in English before I could understand it because I..."
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals. Vanessa Paradis
We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico. Edward Burnett Tylor
Ziyi Zhang quote: "After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."
After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films. Ziyi Zhang
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. Sandra Cisneros
Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need. Michael Bloomberg
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. William Bennett
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. Helen Reddy

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