Quotes of: British-open Keyword

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

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

Wayne Knight

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

Dallas: Something has attached itself to him. We have to get him to the infirmary right away. Ripley: What kind of thing? I need a clear definition. Dallas: An organism. Open the hatch. Ripley: Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infect...

Alien

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

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

Cryptonomicon

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

Daytripper

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry as Well for the Champion or Open Countrey, as Also for the Woodland or Several, Mixed in Every Moneth, with Hous

God can bring good out of everything; both the open doors and the closed doors.

A Fresh Start: 5 Keys to Stepping into Your Best Season

For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible mag...

Kim Raver

Age doesn't matter: an open mind does.

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

Doors open up for you when you work hard. Doors also open up for you when you walk with a limp and act gimpy.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

----quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.

All the Light We Cannot See

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World