“Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.” — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty… — Jane Curtin Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz. — Stephen Dorff Copy Share Image
If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“And a ton came down on a coloured road, And a ton came down on a gaol, And a ton came down… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago --… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
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