Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Taylor-Wood

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

Andrew Murray

Every single person in Britain is so negative about the young players. All they are waiting to do is just put them down and I think this week I kind of showed that possibly I might go on and do well,

I've never competed in Britain before, but everybody on the circuit knows how good their meetings are so I'm excited about appearing.

Robin Cook

We want to ensure there is an end to drug trafficking and an end to the violence, ... Britain is keen to support Colombia.

Helen Sharman

The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it.

Helen Clark

To have two big and powerful countries like the United States and Britain to walk outside the framework... there is going to be lot of soul searching now at the United Nations' Security Council, and within NATO, and within the European Union about what this means for the future,

Michael Ignatieff

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.

There's no doubt in my mind that Kirk is a Great Britain player in the making. He's developing from a follower into a player who leads others. He has great presence and I'm just pleased he's in my team and I don't have to work out ways to stop him.

Gordon Brown

I sense a new spirit in Britain: that the people of Britain want this massive demonstration of generosity to be given enduring purpose.

Nelson Mandela

I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,

John Prescott

It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France.

Simon McBurney

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Kate Hudson

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

Aidan Turner

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

Richard Owen

In scholarly circles, it has long been unfashionable to demonize Judas and Catholics in Britain are likely to welcome Judas's rehabilitation.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Joseph Reed

I am not worth purchasing, but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.

Ephraim Mirvis

Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.

Jason Priestley

I love filming in Britain.

It was a tough game to play, coming off the back end of exams and an emotional victory over New Britain on Martin Luther King Day. We played well enough to take care of business. I'm not happy or upset with our effort.

Michael Apted

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

Ken Livingstone

You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.

Ann Veneman

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

All over Europe nudity is part of the normal way of life. Britain is sort of getting the same way no matter what the government says.

A clear majority in principle is willing to sacrifice civil liberties to a certain degree in order to make Britain safer.

Martin Parr

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Clearly Britain cannot be an objective mediator on the Cyprus problem. Britain no longer has the required credibility.

Julian Fellowes

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.