Quotes of: British-columbia Keyword

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

Alexis Korner

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

Adam Lambert

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

Ivor Novello

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

Terry Wogan

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...

Naomi Wolf

Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed that the majority of the Massachusetts volunteers appeared to be thrill-seeking teenagers, British Army deserters and...

Guns, Politics and Independence: Correspondence between General Washington and President Hancock - June 16, 1775-July 10, 1776

Over the years, the British had strategically pitted the Muslims against the Hindus, supporting the All India Muslim League and encouraging the notion that the Muslims were a distinct political community. Throughout British India, separate electorate...

India: An Illustrated History

[Russell comes back from his meeting with the senior soldiers, where they got mad about the tax cancellation, a soldier salutes and walks by... ] Capt. Russell: Is that the way a soldier behaves? You're SUPPOSED TO SALUTE when a superior officer pass...

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

Sam: Hey, I recognize you. Andrew Largeman: Oh, did you go to Columbia High? Sam: No, not from high school, from TV. Didn't you play the retarded quarterback? Andrew Largeman: Yeah. Sam: Are you really retarded? Andrew Largeman: No. Sam: Ooh, great j...

Garden State

She curled sideways into the milky light of the bedside lamp and began to read.

British Bulldog

Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.

British Bulldog

I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

Jerry Saltz

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

Noel Clarke

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.

Simon Pegg

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Lee Child

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Nandan Nilekani

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Ninette de Valois

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

Paris Hilton

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Simon Hoggart

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

Simon Pegg