That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began… — M. S. Golwalkar Copy Share Image
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I mean, props to Paris Hilton because she's doing it really well and for someone that's such a wealthy heiress she doesn't… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj:… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick.… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
I feel British but my dad still has a filthy Scottish accent so I'm hearing that a lot... but the Davis Cup… — Cameron Norrie Copy Share Image
By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
If I were to pick a favorite SummerSlam match of all time, there's one iconic match that comes to mind: SummerSlam 1992,… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because… — Eline Powell Copy Share Image
I do identify as a Muslim and I do identify as a Bangladeshi girl, I identify as British, as well, and a… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look over my… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British… — Katy B Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
