My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.
You know, I understand that a lot of people, especially up north, put fruits and nuts in their stuffing, which is good, but for myself personally, I love an old-timey savory dressing.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction are George Saunders and Alice Munro.
I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.
I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized information about them.
Roger Thornhill: In the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie. There's only expedient exaggeration.
Eve Kendall: I'm a big girl. Roger Thornhill: Yeah, and in all the right places, too.
Roger Thornhill: Then, then your name isn't Kaplan? Man at Prairie Crossing: Can't say it is, 'cause it ain't.
Roger Thornhill: I may go back to hating you. It was more fun.
