British Quote by Jamie Demetriou Download Open image “Flat' is an inherently British, mundane word - it's onomatopoeia.” — Jamie Demetriou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare British Flat Inherently Mundane Word
A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back. — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Ultimately I think I've just fallen into the trap over the years of putting too much pressure on something that really ultimately doesn't matter… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an incorrect perception… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Growing up in England I've lost a bit of my Greek-Cypriot essence, but it's there in my obsessive use of lemon and olive oil,… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
There's a big culture I think that kicked off with reality TV and the Brit-pop '90s in the U.K. of people being like, 'I… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I know it's considered smug to even mention that you've left a social media platform. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
If you're too focused on the future, you're not focused enough on the task at hand. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Stath has wanted to be a dad since he was born, but has never once looked into what fatherhood entails. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I'm really excited to allow my career to go in the direction that feel rights at any given time. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I learned from doing live shows that I could use physicality to bandage moments that weren't working very well. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I've always said that I don't necessarily feel stereotypically Greek. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
Someone once shouted: 'We know you're acting and this isn't real' at a gig in Cambridge. I was 25, playing a 50-year-old lounge singer… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than… — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a 'James Bond' film, and they only seemed to hire British directors, and I'd made 'Swingers' - they were… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better. — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks! — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt. — Frederick Banting Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood 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 Union turned… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image