Quotes about british
british-musician music
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. Elvis Costello
british-scientist cause speculate store study undergo
We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. Emily Greene Balch
british-scientist cause closely commission connected less medical modern nations noticeable population scientific special study united
Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
british-scientist common deal either vast
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
british-novelist hit madam saw time
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. Elizabeth Gaskell
british-scientist efficient great instrument language vehicle
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
british-scientist discovery suggested
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
british-scientist learned mistakes
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
british hard harsh rather
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them. Hugh Laurie
british-historian people wisdom
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps
british-actor trying
We're trying to make a movie that's interesting. Jason Statham
british left played school scottish
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams. Alan Hansen
british-dramatist cd opposed people playing showing spirit studio trying
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it. Emmy Rossum
british-dramatist dollars
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.
british-musician
I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. Jimmy Page
british-musician music
I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.
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-statesman mother silence
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
british-musician picked
But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Jim Capaldi
british-actor nobody poetry
But nobody can write poetry all the time. Peter Davison
british-actor coming constantly daunting dealing editor poetry reason simply terms understanding
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
british-actor produce programs terrible uniformity
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
british-actor poetry ways
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
british-actor forward found inspired pushed quite youth
In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
british-actor culture past rise version
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
british-actor matters poetry
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
british-actor individual people reading
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.