Quotes About British

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

All the best British groups were inspired by black American music. With The Beatles, it was Motown and the blues. With me, it was a mixture of British styles and the more sophisticated Seventies soul of Barry White and Marvin Gaye.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

As in many British organisations, subtle institutionalised discrimination may well prevail. But in all my time in the army I've never experienced overt racism.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

The British habit of taking quinine as a prophylactic precaution against malaria developed into the evening "gin and tonic"—the gin being considered necessary to make the bitter-tasting quinine in the tonic water palatable.

The casualties were beyond comprehension with 57,470 British casualties on the first day alone. Of these a staggering 19,240 were killed.

With Britain distracted by the Napoleonic Wars, President Jefferson felt compelled to get there first—before his long-hated British, with their "bastard liberty," and who, as he contemptuously put it, "would not lose the sale of a bale of fur for the freedom of the whole world." On

I think they should be the rulers,' Juliana said, pausing. 'They always were the best. The British.

with the Minister for Immigration, Harold Holt, and the head of his department, Heyes, who said the department would 'be very willing to co-operate', but the defectors needed to have 'satisfactory' health, be of 'reasonable age', be prepared to take whatever work was offered and should come to Australia as full fare-paying passengers in British ships.60 Subsequently, on 15 May

Like millions of British people, we paid our taxes in the hope that they would be used to establish shared institutions from which all might benefit equally.

I would pay good money for a British accent.

There are people who are alive because of British aid, people who can walk and see because of our aid, and children who can read and write because of aid.

We grew up with my family being very passionate about two sports, American football and British football.

My dad always had huge respect for the British Army. He always thought it was one of the best. And I think it changed his life - those seven years in that Army.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '&pound10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.