921 British Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. Adam Lambert

Think Some More Weird Open-Minded Audience Might Choices Imagery British

British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to. Adam Rayner

Own Enjoy Slightly TV See More Tend Exciting Perhaps Audiences Reflected Than American American Audiences Quite Want Whereas Them Aspire Show Shows Lives British

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire. Adam Savage

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap. Adam Schlesinger

You Band Saxon Has-Been Spinal Spinal Tap Small Inspiration Small Part Part Since Around Been Tap Unfamiliar British

So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke. Aidan Gillen

Work Me Reality Made First Others Channels Dramas Thompson Saw Destroying TV Clarke Fact David Also First Place Were Lot Lots Screen In Fact So-Called Loved Place Which Reality TV Produced Who Ever Alan Ken British

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. Alan Bradley

Myself Family Tired Big Before Flying Visiting Dreamed About More Never Household Talking Always Woke Up Than Canadian Places Landed Plane England Growing Growing Up British Ben

In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay? Alan K. Simpson

Work War Gay Science Communication World Matter Computer Science Save The World Machine Complex Computer He Named Mastered Does His Led Mathematician German Crack Effort Modern Laid Helping Code Alan World War Basis British World War II Save

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko. Alan Moore

Thought Radical Progressive Jim Everything Mindset Bit Would Would-Be Prevailing Outset Like Comics Were Greatly Improved Psychedelic Right British

There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you're growing up, you need someone you can identify with. I remember at Christmas being bought a doll that didn't look anything like me, so I threw it away. Alesha Dixon

Christmas Music Me You Women Remember Black Few Teenager TV Someone Threw Bought Like Look Identify Were Doll Up Very Being Anything Growing Growing Up Away British Need

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times. Alex Kingston

Marvelous Californians Times Patronizing Then Cynicism British

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday. Alex Kingston

Time People Every Every Time Driver Reminded Know Most Catherine Welsh American English Shown Even Dr British

I admire American women because they are really good at putting a look together that is sophisticated. As British girls, we lean toward being a bit more messy, a bit more undone, and maybe a little more eccentric. Alexa Chung

Good Together Women Girl Undone Bit Admire Eccentric More Putting Toward Sophisticated Look Lean Because Messy American Maybe Being Little Really American Women British

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. Alexander McQueen

Fashion Heritage Drawing Constant Constant Flow Fearless Self Generating Thus New Ideas Bow New Ideas Commerce Confident Refuses Whilst Flow British

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing. Alexandra Fuller

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. Alexis Korner

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

Parallel Johnny Resulted Winters Development American Movement Blues British

In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia. Alistair Horne

For people like me, who have got their flags and wars mixed up, I think it should be pointed out that there may have been only one War of 1812, but there are four distinct versions of it - the American, the British, the Canadian, and the Native American. Amanda Foreman

War Me People Think Distinct Out Only Pointed Like Got Mixed Been Versions Up Canadian American Flags May Native Native American Should Who Wars Four British

I'm proud to be British. Amir Khan

Proud British

I love the British public and the British fans; they are true boxing fans. If you get them on your side, you can go right to the end and achieve anything in life. Amir Khan

Life Love You Achieve Fans Side True Boxing Go End Get Anything Public Them Your Right British

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian. Amit Bhatia

Family Rest Indian Am Passport British

A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place. Aml Ameen

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