Quotes about british
british-musician choosing songs wrote
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. Kate Bush
british canadians flags flying hard india joint people pressed
I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises. Dean Rusk
british-musician reclusive
I think that we're not reclusive at all. Colin Greenwood
british-author forget known leave meeting officially six
I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house. Timothy Garton Ash
british-actress throw
I didn't want to throw like an actress. Dennis Quaid
british-musician girls leave record spice waited
I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want. Geri Halliwell
british-actor mad onto passion
I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them. Joseph Fiennes
british-actress life
I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that. Claire Bloom
british-actress depressing novel reading
I'd like to write a novel more than anything. I'm reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles at the moment, which is depressing me no end! Sarah Sutton
british-soldier damages letting losses none send willing
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
british cards fake id national terrorists
ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet. Bruce Schneier
british-actress hopeless lonely quite
I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job. Julie Walters
british-dramatist create lazy learn learning steal
I create most of my own images. I steal about 2%. I use Photoshop but didn't learn it very deep. I am ultra lazy about learning software.
british holding looks odd open people slammed understand
I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
british hall mixed music sex taste tradition
He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money.
british
The British are so funny. Rose Byrne
british chickens dishes
Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish Robin Cook
british knows
I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? Robert Plant
british-soldiers soldier british
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay! Rudyard Kipling
british business control difficult glass longer pride sheet
Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.
british business control difficult glass longer pride sheet
Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass, and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.
british-musician cause depth good playing response surface
Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things. Jeremy Spencer
british french opens races tennis
Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.
british ordinary
ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why? Tom Baker
british japanese offers received
Our movie also received offers from French, British and Japanese distribution companies.
british dollar far hand money near prefer yankee
I prefer the Yankee dollar to the British shilling, especially when the Yankee dollar is near at hand and the British shilling so far away. Wilfrid Laurier
british history nominated
If you think about it, I made history. Not only was I the first black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar, I was the first black British person. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
british-soldier library
If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job. John Berry
british chiefly committee fall formed gaining intelligence movements ourselves upwards watching
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. Paul Revere
british-economist course falls occasion profits rent stock
In the course of these observations, I have often had occasion to insist, that rent never falls without the profits of stock rising. David Ricardo
british darkness forces helped hour people
In the Kosovars' hour of darkness and fear, British forces have helped a whole people back from the precipice,
british choose leak member name pleases quite secret services state
In the '60s - and right up to the present day - the identity of a member of the British Secret Services was and is, quite rightly, a state secret. To divulge it is a crime. The Services may choose to leak a name when it pleases them. John le Carre
british-scientist discharge frequency merely motor suppress thus
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. Charles Scott Sherrington