As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now… — Brenda Blethyn Copy Share Image
I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The prospect of voluntarily travelling to a war zone with your young children is not one which most British women would ever… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist,… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
I want to enable the Windrush generation to acquire the status that they deserve - British citizenship - quickly, at no cost,… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted… — Bill Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
If you talk to a British officer or NCO about the strategic objectives of the end state, you'll often get a spirited… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The 'Britishness' debate too often descends into worthy flannel about common values and mutual respect. To give a hard edge to what… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us. — George Vancouver Copy Share Image
The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly traditional British cook, as my partner Cathy doesn't enjoy spicy food, although I like to experiment myself. — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup. — Alisher Usmanov Copy Share Image
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment. — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired. — Scott Capurro Copy Share Image
I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals. — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of. — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians. — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
