The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for… — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to… — Alex Iwobi Copy Share Image
David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more… — Glenn Roeder Copy Share Image
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
“England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was just ready to make a movie for the girls. It was just really fun to write for a girl. It… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
But it's different in England. We have different players from different races, even in the lower leagues. They don't have that in… — Rhian Brewster Copy Share Image
However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places. — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
I grew up in England, and people there are pretty difficult. They never say what they mean, and when they do it… — Christina Pickles Copy Share Image
My time in England is where I have felt truly like a footballer, and I have put my name among the best… — Pepe Reina Copy Share Image
In my view, fitness training isn't that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive… — Claudio Ranieri Copy Share Image
“Why don't you come with me?" "Why? Where are you going?" "Home. I've had enough. I hate England." "Hate England?" It was… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was… — Berti Vogts Copy Share Image
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the… — Michael Sata Copy Share Image
What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
