Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is what I expected having read the reports in the media. I didn't think there was anything in the document that would embarrass the British government. I will be seeking the disclosure of the document in court.

It is vitally important farmers remain confident and focused on producing and promoting top quality British meat.

Ben Ainslie

It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,

Natalie Massenet

I just wear what I like and lots of it is British,

This British guy makes a lot of good points.

This outbreak has potentially catastrophic implications for the whole of the British livestock industry.

Greg Rusedski

There will be a lot at stake for me because if I win I will go to British number one for the end of the season,

The request of the British government has been accepted.

This is the third week the fish seem to be getting away from British tennis players.

It is terrific to see another British player in the top 100,

Ray Stevenson

It's an interesting theory, ... But you can put British actors in silly clothes and not look ridiculous. Now if the Brits were to make a western, it would fall apart.

It's an honorary knighthood because knighthood per se is just for British citizens,

Ross Anderson

This is traditionally a little slower time, but we've had a bump in business since the British team arrived.

They're in Britain. They don't want to be British and they hate us. I say we should sling them all out.

Amanda Bynes

They realize that we're poking fun at the stereotype, ... I've talked with several British people and interviewers, and they all had a really positive take on the movie. I think that they're confident enough in themselves. Everybody seems to be enjoying it.

There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not. The decision to send British soldiers into battle is the worst and most stomach-churning senior politicians have to take. It makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying if they have done the right thing.

Alan Yentob

The relationship between TV and film is a very potent one. It's extraordinary how much British talent there is.

Gordon Campbell

There's a new era dawning in British Columbia. You have to establish what you value, and work together. This collaboration is something we have to take into the future, and it is something the world can learn from.

Michael Clarke

There's an element of this which is to prove to the British public that the government is taking it very seriously.

Kofi Annan

It was on the American and British watch, ... They knew exactly what was going on. They decided to close their eyes.

Rachel McAdams

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.

Robert Cray

We played a lot in Eugene, we played in Portland, we'd stop in Corvallis, ... We were doing that run from Vancouver, British Columbia, down to San Francisco.

Niecy Nash

I recently finished a job, an HBO movie 'Getting On,' a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.

Nicole Scherzinger

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Nick Clegg

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

Martin Parr

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.

P. J. O'Rourke

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The handsome agricultural landscape of which the British are so proud, carefully husbanded since Boudicca's day, would be replaced by natural growth. The most likely growth is real-estate developments.

Slash

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

Toby Young

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.

Henry Beard

Whenever I dream of playing a perfect round of golf, which I rarely do more than a dozen times a day, I picture myself on one of my favorite British Open-style links, and in particular the great courses of the west of Ireland, whose holes flow through naturally bunkered dunesland never far from the sight or sound of surf.

Ha-Joon Chang

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.

Webb Simpson

I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

Paul Johnson

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries.