It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
When I came here, I was a little bit different and in Finland people didn't really accept me, and then I came… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro.… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
British prime ministers and prime ministers' spouses and children are together becoming ever more like first families. They need to be given… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake… — Sam Huntington Copy Share Image
British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking… — Susanna White Copy Share Image
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
People don't contest that I'm British as a black man, but they do contest that I'm English. Too many people are going… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
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It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
British establishment uses "the royal we," as in, "We think this." You hear a lot of that these days. It erroneously suggests… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing… — Lando Norris Copy Share Image
If the scale of gas is anything like the claims made by its advocates, it has major implications for the economy and… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
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