They will be just as hard to play as the English, ... Our players have a big respect for Croatia. They are technically refined and able to make the difference with an individual gesture.
They will be just as hard to play as the English, ... Our players have a big respect for Croatia. They are technically refined and able to make the difference with an individual gesture.
The issue has come up throughout the series. I don't want to delve too deep but cricket has a great tradition of 12th men being bowlers or whatever, but generally the English are much smarter than Australians, and in the day of professionalism I suppose it is just getting the best out of the resources available within the rules. ... I would be surprised if there was not a twist left in this game. We are hanging on by the skin of our teeth.
With the Genies, you've got this television obstacle where you're essentially going into the marketplace with a lot of movies that haven't done particularly well in English Canada. That's a challenge.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
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.
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
You just don't know how to use the English language.
Although the test itself is only in English, sometimes it helps students (who) read in Spanish become more comfortable to understand how the tests operate.
Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go "LOL" in America.
He said in real good English, 'Did one of my soldiers take anything from you
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger.
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
I explained to all of them that he is a very smart man, who is graduating with a degree in business management from a four-year college. I feel confident to say he can speak English.
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
The problem is the traffickers are very good at controlling their victims, ... They don't have access to TV, their ability to learn English is restricted, so getting the message directly to the victims is difficult.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
I wanted to tell him something I don't have to tell you what I said. I said it in English. I wanted to make sure he understood.
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.
I think the only word the Cuba-born Oliva could say in English when I met him was 'hamburger.' When I see him, I always tell him, 'I've known you for 40 years, and I still can't understand you.'
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
The French courage proceeds from vanity the German from phlegm the Turkish from fanaticism opium the Spanish from pride the English from coolness the Dutch from obstinacy the Russian from insensibility but the Italian from anger.
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages, but the share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling. As of 1995, English was the second most-common tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese. By 2050, Chinese will continue its predominance.
China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
One should not be too severe on English novels they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
I lost a lot of confidence (in basketball) because I didn't speak English.
Poor Knight he really had two periods, the first - a dull man writing broken English, the second - a broken man writing dull English.
It's just so much like Iraq, it's not funny, ... except for all the water, and they speak English.
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.
Eventually, though, ... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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