British Quote by Nancy Kress Download Open image “Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.” — Nancy Kress ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare British Inspirational Intelligent Said
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting? — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
It would be absurd to say I'm not British - you can hear it when I speak. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent. — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...” — Simon Boylan Copy Share Image
“But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his… — Nancy Kress 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
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
