Quotes of: British-people Keyword

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

David Eagleman

British acting is undoubtedly based in text, and American acting relies more on behavior. That's speaking very generally.

Josh Dallas

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

John Lahr

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

Charley Reese

The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

Ian Mckellen

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Simon Schama

The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Clare Balding

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Martin Fleischmann

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

Martin Fleischmann

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

Joel Edgerton

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Robert Duvall

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

Alexis Korner

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 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

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

British Bulldog