Quotes tagged ‘english’

“Salutations or greetings when starting an email, business letter, legal letter, cover letter, or professional letter can set the tone for the message. It informs the reader that the message is either going to be formal and professional (or serious). Or informal. If you choose the wrong salutation, i…”

— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co

“John Rambo! Juanito Rambo!”

— Matthew Cirulnick, Hugo Martinez, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, imdb.com

“That's English for you. Fucking savages.”

— Lisa McGee, Michelle Mallon, Jamie Lee O'Donnell, imdb.com

“One German, a fine man. Two Germans, a bund. Three Germans, a war. One Englishman, an idiot. Two Englishmen, a club. Three Englishmen, an Empire.”

— Joseph E. Persico, David W. Rintels, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Brian Cox, imdb.com

“James Bond: Hello. I thought you might like to join the party. By the way, the name is James St. John Smythe. I'm English. Stacey Sutton: I never would have guessed.”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, James Bond, Roger Moore, imdb.com

“Fail English, no biggie. Fail gym, then we need to talk.”

— Aaron Martin, Yan Moore, Paige Michalchuk, Lauren Collins, imdb.com

“When I met you four years ago, you were driving a Jag. I said to myself, who is this sharp piece of business driving an English sled looking like a million dollars? Now four girlfriends later, I'm asking myself who is this skunk wearing Hush Puppies and walking to work?”

— Stephen J. Cannell, Sgt. Rita Lee Lance, Mitzi Kapture, imdb.com

“Jas Mitra: I like her. She's... she smart, the way she talks, she sounds like my father. That funny? Marcus: Your father gave up a civil servant job to help liberate the poor, she's fighting to speak French instead English. That's not much of an objective.”

— John Ridley, Marcus, Babou Ceesay, imdb.com

“She won't be happy til her face looks like an English saddle.”

— Matthew Weiner, Anushka, Marthe Keller, imdb.com

“Everett K. Ross: Does she speak English? Okoye: When she wants to.”

— Joe Robert Cole, Ryan Coogler, Okoye, Daniel Gurira, imdb.com

“I don't trust a doctor who can hardly speak English.”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Hyman Roth, Lee Strasberg, imdb.com

“Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot.”

— The Rolling Stones, open.spotify.com

“Sheldon: Anyway, the housekeeper in the faculty residence didn’t speak any English. When I finally managed to convince her I was sick, she said, 'Möchtest du eine Darmspülung?' Penny: What does that mean? Sheldon: Based on what happened next, I assume it means, 'Would you like an enema?'”

— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com

“Ricky Ricardo: Listen, Professor, can you play that thin'? Lucy Ricardo: What thin? Ricky Ricardo: Never mind makin' fun of my English. Lucy Ricardo: That's English?”

— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com

“It's not real English if you speak it with a foreign accent.”

— Chris Petersen, Bryan Moore, Michael Kelso, Ashton Kutcher, imdb.com

“I may not say this right because I am new to English, but she has tremendous breasts, yes?”

— Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, Mark Brazill, Fez, Wilmer Valderrama, imdb.com

“Vanessa Baxter: Boyd is learning Spanish at his new school. Blanca: And I will say, with *that* they are doing a very good job. Mike Baxter: Why are they teaching him Spanish in the first grade? Vanessa Baxter: Well, honey, it's a bilingual school. The teacher says everything in English and then say…”

— Kevin Hench, Mike Baxter, Tim Allen, imdb.com

“Time doesn't matter, Sassanach. You will always be beautiful to me.”

— Matthew B. Roberts, Jamie Fraser, Sam Heughan, imdb.com

“You wouldn't expect me to be less bold than a wee Sassenach lassie, now, would you?”

— Anne Kenney, Jamie Fraser, Sam Heughan, imdb.com

“Jamie: Ye need not be scairt of me. Nor anyone else here, so long as I'm with ye. Claire: When you are not with me? Jamie: Just never forget that you're English in a place where that's no a pretty thing to be.”

— Ronald D. Moore, Jamie Fraser, Sam Heughan, imdb.com