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-actor costume department later main next returned shooting unit weeks
I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia. Peter Mayhew
british contract dream league manchester mine premier six team
The contract is for six years. We'll see after that. It has always been a dream of mine to play in the British Premier League for a team like Manchester United. Freddy Adu
british cause chain concern easier fact focused further group hit major official people personnel prepared senior sign taking
The fact that they focused on a British official may be a sign that U.S. personnel are now taking a lot more precautions, while Saunders may have been an easier hit. But it also suggests that if they can't hit at senior personnel, this group is prepared to hit at people further down the chain -- and that could be major cause for concern at the Olympics.
british experience field hear incredible opposite people played weak winning
That was an incredible experience, ... I hear people say that the field was weak (because it was played opposite of the British Open), but winning is winning. Now that I've done it, I know I can do it again.
british-actor gracious mark mother quite stop tried wearing
I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young. Colin Firth
british efforts impose resolution unfair
I would like to reconfirm what we have said before ... that U.S. and British efforts to impose a new unfair resolution will never succeed, Tariq Aziz
british-musician closest commentary daily jon level news
I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture. John Mayall
british official
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. Yotam Ottolenghi
british controlled west
If the British controlled West Point, then they controlled the Hudson, Jim Johnson
british-author cautious century taught work
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
british-comedian fake gentle good paid soul version
He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father. Hugh Laurie
british-statesman business found great guiding himself learning man
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
british-statesman cause evolution force
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
british-statesman great life ought
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
british-statesman cannot emotions
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
british-statesman duty examine laws religion sure worship
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
british-statesman good hold unless
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
british-statesman brought good proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
british-statesman man
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
british-statesman business great life
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
british-musician
We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! Lee Ryan
british-comedian computer dare expensive none passed somehow
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. Rory Bremner
british-statesman charge consistency depends reflect
But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors. Robert Walpole
british-statesman sole
I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
british-statesman conduct given grants obtained placed since station symptoms
Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?
british dropping excessive far fear fell handicap pilots troops weapon wide
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
british-novelist course expected seemed time wrong
Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path. Anne Perry
british commit correct course face forces growing history iraq learn lessons responsibility threat wrenching
Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it. Douglas Alexander
british-actor quite touches
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. Alan Bates
british-scientist create fact profound simplest takes
Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference. Gregory Bateson