Quotes about british
british-musician performed playing time various
The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. Benny Green
british-musician harmonies instead juggler
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
british-musician clinical environment outside recording seem special though
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
british food judge outspoken people rather shows simon
I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here. Toby Young
british-scientist high paintings reach winds within
Tracing the paintings was often complicated because of high winds and by the difficulties of getting within reach of the paintings. Louis Leakey
british consider
I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage. Slash
british-musician record soundtrack
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. Roger Waters
british-scientist call designed machines point processing program stay time word
Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. Rupert Sheldrake
british films kids watching
For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world. Gurinder Chadha
british-actress
Some of those cartoons look nothing like me. Sarah Sutton
british-actress pleased
I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor.
british-actress stayed
I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.
british-actress ripped scene
I think I must have too much to eat, we were doing a scene where we were crawling, and I ripped my trousers. I was very embarrassed. I was sown in, stitched in, quickly!
british-actress fast fit run running useless week
I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running.
british-actress director energetic floor messages send
We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?
british carving fringe niche press worked
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
british-musician hard people saw
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money. Gavin Rossdale
british-actor school
I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off. George Cole
british-actor people
I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.
british brown civil core elect gordon government job last means prime ready sure values whoever work
It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.
british-musician copies gear half hour later studios thirty thousand
We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day. Georgie Fame
british-musician broke
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
british famous good middle strength theatre
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. Ian Mckellen
british concept great grew humor moved six
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. Frank Oz
british-musician comfort
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find. George Michael
british-soldier cape hour obliged passage pump required ship
The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn. William Bligh
british community great intelligence national skills
The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.
british list lost men
These men are not appreciated. They went through a lot. If we had lost the (Revolutionary) war, these men would have been No. 1 on the British list to hang.
british foreign greece initiative jack mission turkey undertake
The secretary-general welcomes the initiative of the British Foreign Secretary, H.E. Mr. Jack Straw, to undertake a mission to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey this week.
british-author choice growth human lies principle strongest
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot
british-actress human introduced ordinary sing song start
The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them.
british-scientist idol proof pure whom
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
british damage defense disclosure hearing held national
Our defense is that disclosure of the memo would not damage the British national interest, so why should any hearing be held in private?