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
I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
British people have a really sophisticated sense of humour, because we're exposed to much more than Europeans and Americans, not least in… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and,… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Those British nationals who turned their back on our country to fight for Daesh made a fatal mistake. They should expect to… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells'… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a political debate… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so… — Nick Faldo Copy Share Image
I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
My dad came from Trinidad to Jamaica when he was 19. He had to go to Jamaica to join the British regiment,… — John Barnes 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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