“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.” MenArtRealitySchoolUnderstandingWhiteStruggleSeeingEnglandIndianFormalWhite ManStarksPierceSchooledBaffledStark Reality Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus
“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.” IfsArtRealityDiesPrinciplesAirTalentReflectionMadnessEnglandAbsolutesProfessionWitIntroducingRoguesAbsolute FreedomPedants Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done.” WayKindPersonsDoneRealityEnglandCamerasScaredPrivacyAnother WayFollow Me Author:Naomi Campbell
“The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died, and that theology was very influential in England in his lifetime. I think Shakespeare was attentive to questions raised by it, about human nature, history, reality itself. I find the two literatures to be mutually illuminating.” ThinkingYearsHumansTwoRealityLiteratureBornHuman NatureTraditionEnglandDiedLifetimeRaisedTheologyClassicInfluentialRenaissanceIlluminating Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Sometimes what holds you together and what tears you apart are the same things. My lungs are made of armor so that I can breathe when you are not here. 6.8 million people live alone in England. Do you feel lonely? I don't have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMadeI CanDifferentSometimesDreamRealitySeemsTogetherFacesLostMillionsTearsLonelyEnglandBreatheLungsArmorFeeling LonelyWeird Day Author:Bill Watterson
“Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.” BigsRealityTodaySexSecretEnglandDirtyNastyBig BusinessVictorianDirty Secrets Author:Ralph Nader
“The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.” WorldWantFirstsBelieveDifferentRealReasonWholeRealityJobsLeftBehaviorEnglandSalvationCrowdsLoserReal WorldGod's LovePilgrimReal JobsWrong ReasonsCrackpotsAlternate Realities Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.” KindMatterRealityGamesLostFansFootballEnglandBotheredCocoons Author:Rio Ferdinand
“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?” YearsHomeRealitySchoolNationsClassMysteryBloodMiddleSummerEnglandBlueDemocraticCalmBonesMannersMiddle ClassSkullsStretchingLawnsNew EnglandPrepsAristocraticBlue BloodsSkull And Bones Author:David Brooks
“England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world.” PeopleWorldBelieveChildrenSoulRealitySufferingBeliefWifeLandMissingFootballSweetBabyFitEnglandTradeWesternDespiteGentleBeatenStrainInsultingWhipsStreaksWestern WorldPuritanLashesScourgeWantonCallousCrunchPlies Author:Colin MacInnes