“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.” KnowsTryingBigsBrainBreakSawsFootballHeroMetsBeatsEnglandStudiosDrunkScotlandMy HeroRefrigeratorsFootball Match Author:Andy Partridge
“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.” HeartQuietBeatsEnglandGreenPsalms Author:Arthur Quiller-Couch
“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.” KindHas BeensKidsAgeSeriousBeatsEnglandNotesEastLondonBoxingCanadaTwelveAccentsTauntingCockneysEast London Author:Lennox Lewis
“England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.” SeaBeatsEnglandBoundsShoreEnviousTriumphantSiegeNeptune Author:William Shakespeare
“For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.” IfsMenWholeTogetherYoungGamesFootballBeatsEnglandFranceYoung ManRugbyWalesFootball GameIrishmen Author:Eamon de Valera
“On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.” WholeEarthPurposeSufferingHoursCompanyPrinciplesMorningPowerSunAirMilitaryBeatsGloryEnglandRaisedFollowingPossessionSurfaceCirclesPostsHeightRomeFlagsGlobesStrainConquestColonyUnbrokenAfarSubjugationDrum Beats Author:Daniel Webster
“Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.” IfsTogetherTeamBeatsEnglandScotland Author:John Prescott
“It is captivating, isn't it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film. I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn't about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial. I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships. Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReasonHappensFilmFeltDecisionCircumstancesSceneDrugBeatsGunEnglandReally GreatThings ChangeProminentElectronic MusicCaptivatingNightlife Author:Agyness Deyn
“Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.” WantBelieveRememberUnitedTeamBeatsAdvantageEnglandUnfairManchesterArsenalChelseaManchester UnitedUnfair Advantage Author:Frank Lampard
“I didn't want to fight a guy from England. What if I lose? Not that English guys aren't strong, but who wants to get beat up by a guy with that voice? That's not the most masculine voice to take a beating to.” IfsWantGuyFightingStrongVoiceLosesBeatsEnglandWhat IfMasculine Author:Jay Mohr
“I`m going to say the New England Patriots fans [biggest winner of the year 2015]. I mean - bring it on. Bring it on. You know why? You know why? Because we won the Super Bowl, because we got Brady reinstated because we started 10 and 0. Bring on the heat because you can`t beat us.” KnowsYearsMeanFansBeatsEnglandWinnerHeatBowlsPatriotSuper BowlNew EnglandBradyNew England Patriots Author:Steve Kornacki
“But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.” HeartYoungHalfBeatsEnglandFasterSomething BetterYoung At Heart Book:The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In) Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve” ThinkingNeedsFeelsWinningSidesChangeBeatsAreasEnglandMaking Changes Author:Warren Gatland
“A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos” YearsBeatsYears AgoEngland Author:Ian Botham