Boots Quote by Christine McVie

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a…

— Stephen Fry

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's…

— Cornelia Parker

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

— David Bowie

In England, we're brought up to think 'don't get too big for your boots.' We prize modesty. I'd never fly into Heathrow and say,…

— Lee Evans

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

— Jared Harris

Truthfully, I wanted to be a hairdresser in Coventry, England.

— Jen Ledger

I got to portray a park ranger on 'Gilmore Girls,' the reunion films. And when I was a kid, that was one of the…

— Peter Krause

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then…

— Riley Keough

Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every…

— Bill Bryson

My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from…

— M.I.A

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself…

— Patrick White