Quotes of: New-england Keyword

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Charles Babbage

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position i...

Rowan Atkinson

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Wallis Simpson

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Brian Eno

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Kate Adie

Frank: You'd never think it. Needing rain so badly. Not in fucking England!

28 Days Later...

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Anthony Trollope

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Terri Windling

I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.

Usher

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

William John Wills

I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.

Katia Winter

Bad news has wings.

French

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake This admirable couplet should be posted in conspicuous places all over England. The truth it embodies is threatened by two parties of opinio...

Library Looking-Glass: A Personal Anthology

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards...

Why I Write

[first lines] Lord Byron: Prologue [looking out the window at a thunderstorm] Lord Byron: How beautifully dramatic! The cruelest savage exhibition of nature at her worst without. [turns to face Mary and Percy Shelley, both seated] Lord Byron: And we ...

Bride of Frankenstein

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Spike Lee

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Madonna Ciccone

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

Jon Stewart

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

Peter McWilliams