Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Murray

The plucky Brits were shaken but not stirred by the Superdome ordeal,

Matthew Rhys

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

Kate Adie

Only the Brits do this; as for the military from the rest of Europe and NATO - you could die in front of them and they would take no notice.

Hans Blix

Now we are curious, we are the most curious of all to know, are the Americans and Brits and others going to find some weapons of mass destruction?

David Bowie

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'

Nadim Shehadi

The Unites States wants regime change. France doesn't want to see the regime fall for fear of chaos or civil war, and the Brits are not sure because they don't know what will follow.

Denis MacShane

They sometimes give the impression, have done for years, that there's an Anglo-Saxon world out there waiting to do them down. Just as much as our anti-Europeans think there's a Franco-German plot to do down the Brits in Europe

Matthew Macfadyen

You got the more sugary one. The Brits hated it.

Luke Mitchell

I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are fear'd, are hated.

Bertrand Russel

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

Fritz Lang

I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.

George Benson

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Clive Sinclair

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

Elsa Peretti

I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.