Britain Quotes - Page 14

• Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

  Van Morrison

  Courses

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Cities

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Writing, Band

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Girl, Song, Fun

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Difficult Situations, Support

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Britain is leaving and has de facto left the European Union; however, it has not withdrawn from its special relationship with the United States and I believe that the UK's relations with Russia depend on Britain's special relationship with the United States rather than on its presence in or absence from the European Union.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Russia, Leaving

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Britain pursues a more independent foreign policy, it might be possible then. And if it is guided by commitments to its allies and considers this to be of a bigger national interest than its cooperation with Russia, so be it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Independent, Commitment, Russia

  Source: thesaker.is

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyhow, we obviously understand that, being a United States' ally and having a special relationship with it, the UK in its relations with Russian has to make an allowance for the opinion of its partner - the U.S. We take this reality as a given fact, but let me underscore once again that we will be ready to do as much as Britain will be ready to do in order to resume our mutual cooperation. This does not depend on us.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, Order, Special

  Source: thesaker.is

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to have their clothes tailored, and they often have a trusted tailor who is passed on from father to son. Plus you have this great textile and fabric tradition, which has been a source of inspiration to us.

  Domenico Dolce

  Father, Inspiration, Son

  7 Copy quote

• Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

  Martin Schulz

  Europe, Want, Economy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Academic Freedom, Individual, Authority

  Source: www.artzip.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Kings, Character, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Believe, Past

  "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.

  Dylan Moran

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I'm spending a lot of time in - we call them caravans in Britain.

  Ewan McGregor

  World, Film, Should

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is it in the interests of Britain to leave or remain in the EU? As we saw in the referendum, there are different Britains and they see their interests in different ways. For a lot of everyday blokes the EU affected their sense of identity in ways they disliked, and they were right in thinking that the EU didn't return much to them by way of economic benefits.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Everyday, Identity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.

  Phil Collins

  Thinking, Missing, Switzerland

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Half, Century, Made

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced that there was no such thing as society and that government was the problem not the solution. Democracy and the political process were all but sacrificed to the power of corporations and the emerging financial service industries, just as hope was appropriated as an advertisement for a whitewashed world in which the capacity of culture to critique oppressive social practices was greatly diminished.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Practice, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.

  Ruth Wilson

  Europe, Voice, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Britain, we haven't got enough money to make these long-running shows. We always do little mini ones. You have more control as an actor over what you want to do with it. On these you drive yourself mad trying to know what's going to happen, because the writers don't.

  Ruth Wilson

  Running, Mad, Long

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.

  Gerald Horne

  War, Long, Colonialism

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, People, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up in Britain, we didn't have much, worked for everything. To leave food on the plate, Mom classed it as being rude and so we ate because we were hungry, not ate because we had a choice in the fridge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Mom, Growing Up, Choices

  Source: variety.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source