Quotes about british
british-musician music
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. Jimmy Page
british helped landed partly production teach watch
I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.
british country denmark drama feeling felt general looked reflected tradition tv
Denmark as a country has always looked up to England. I've always felt that British actors are fantastic. There's a strong theatre tradition in your country, and that is reflected in TV and film as well. We've always thought that for crime series, you were the masters, and the general feeling the Danes have of British drama is that it's excellent.
british history ireland irish learned life northern
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school. James Nesbitt
british-novelist
All enchantments die; only cowards die with them. Charles Morgan
british-novelist build love rather sake sure
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
british-novelist
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. David Storey
british-soldier elsewhere last mark warm
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen. Horatio Nelson
british-author goes less older toward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. Dorothy L. Sayers
british-author human mankind
A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
british deal number
With all the things I've had to go through it would be a big deal for me to get back to British number one. Greg Rusedski
british cursing love sound vulgarity
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. Christopher Moore
british-novelist fairly mind others sort stick though written
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. Bernard Cornwell
british-musician printed score
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth. Bill Bruford
british-musician chris friction jon state
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
british-musician checks chris sound wonderful
I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.
british-musician happened offer
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
british country empire forming history links national respect teaching understand unlikely
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others. Antony Beevor
british love tend watch
I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy. Danny McBride
british created early fad golden groups known member mystical order society tarot turned
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
british-author
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress. Antonia Fraser
british-author people
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
british-author farthest mary subject
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
british-actor
I think all of the parties still have some way to go to better utilise IT in campaigns. Adam Rickitt
british-actor chance either happened next panicked sit time took
I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.
british-actor further list onto people selection
I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list.
british-scientist
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. Alfred Russel Wallace
british-scientist receive
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
british-actor characters net scenes
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. Albert Finney
british-actor
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.
british-actor charts correct gives scene setting sounds tape trailer
We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.
british-actor enjoys great
It was great to do and it's exciting to do those things. That's another thing, that one enjoys the game.
british-actor certainly good
You just feel comfortable with him, and he certainly makes sure that you're comfortable. He makes sure that you feel good and that you're happy with what you're doing.