England Quotes · Page 85

Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United…

— Argus Hamilton

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language,…

— Sid Bernstein

“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for.”

— Helene Hanff

I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts…

— Miranda Otto

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

— Jordan Henderson

I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

— Fabio Capello

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or…

— Johnny Winter

A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination,…

— John Steinbeck

If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto…

— Anohni

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne,…

— Neil Marshall

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England…

— Goldwin Smith

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

— Benjamin Franklin

It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the…

— Alden Ehrenreich

But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of…

— Joseph Needham

When I was playing in England, I started to realise what Arsenal meant.

— Mikel Arteta

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

— Michael Clarke

I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get…

— Robert Pattinson

I grew up in the Boston suburbs and inherited a stubborn New England refusal to acknowledge frigid temperatures.

— Josh Gondelman

I believe, and this is perhaps too nationalistic a view, that the American style of acting puts actors quickly in touch with…

— Arthur Penn

Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…

— John Stuart Mill

I'm proud, privileged, and overwhelmed by how many times I've played for England.

— Ashley Cole

I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for…

— Michael McIntyre

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

— Jose Bergamin

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

— Gary Kemp

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been…

— Ruth Reichl

...and he extends and grows even bigger than he is. (on Peter Schmeichel)

— Ron Atkinson

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge…

— Dave Whelan

I want to be a Premier League player, a Liverpool player and an England player.

— Rhian Brewster

I shouldn't have retired from England. I needed to respect the shirt.

— Ashley Cole

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

— George Mikes

I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see…

— Matthea Harvey

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John…

— Max O'Rell

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by…

— Natalia Ginzburg

It's like I'm held up as some kind of beacon of England - or some bloody British bulldog.

— Helen Baxendale

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

— Gareth Southgate

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays…

— Randy Harrison

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England…

— Rachel Cusk

Some Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously…

— Edward Thomas

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

— Bob Hope