“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.” IfsYearsHouseTalkingCrimeChangedEnglandPrisonCaughtHomosexual Author:Patrick Macnee
“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.” PeopleMadeStillsRunningFilmTalkingClassMiddleGardenEnglandSillyMiddle ClassSurprisingLoadAccents Author:Stephen Daldry
“Talking about an X-Men Kissing scene I had to lay down there and think of England as one by one they bring out the girls. It was a very tough morning... After each girl had finished, the crew would hold up scorecards.” ThinkingMenGirlTalkingMorningSceneKissingToughEnglandLaysFinishedCrewX MenMorning After Author:Hugh Jackman
“Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic” PeopleWinningTalkingEnglandPatheticDerby Author:Stuart Pearce
“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.” MenHumansKindMeanDifferentFactsAmericaThreeLanguageVoiceInterestingRaceAttitudeTalkingPiecesStupidMarkEnglandBoundsIncludingDespiteBoatMagazinesDamnHuman RaceDistinctionTeensContinentsVolumeImpressedEnglish LanguageLaid BackLaconic Author:Terry Pratchett
“There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character.” FirstsHas BeensTwoReasonCharacterAmericaTalkingEnglandOccasionsReason WhyProposeLegendaryEngland And America Author:Louis J. Mordell
“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.” PeopleWorldYearsIdeasPastWalksTalkingEnvironmentHappenedThis WorldWallThousandEnglandEverydayLondonPassingPassingsThousand YearsEveryday LifeIrrelevantSurvivingOld YouRelics Author:Miles Millar
“When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.” PeopleYearsStatesSoundTalkingEnglandNew England Author:Lester Flatt
“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.” GivingSaidMightUsedGuyStuffCompanyTalkingRecordsMinesOne DayEnglandAlbumsProductionsFantasticTapeVirginsThis GuyRecord CompaniesBerserkUbiquity Author:Roy Ayers
“During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.” TalkingGoes OnPeriodsEnglandFranceSouthernScotlandWalesSplittingNormandySouthern Italy Author:Juan Enriquez
“At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I think when you're talking about France, England, things like that, they look for the history of an artist and they go back when it comes to music like this anyway. They will go back a little bit further. I think the United States is very knowledgeable and it's a good place to play.” ThinkingLooksLittlesStatesPlayHomeArtistBitsUnitedTalkingUnited StatesLittle BitEnglandTendenciesFranceBack WhenKnowledgeableGood Place Author:Joe Louis Walker
“I've probably read maybe by now fifteen, twenty books on Matthew. I'd say the authors I like best are an English fellow named Michael Goulder, who taught at the University of Birmingham in England, and he writes about the Jewish background in Matthew's gospel, which is part of what I was just talking about, which is just really thrilling to me.” WritingBookTalkingTaughtEnglandTwentiesFellowsUniversityBackgroundsFifteenThrillingMatthewBirmingham Author:John Shelby Spong
“We had a wonderful trip, a seven-day trip, talking and sitting in the sun and so forth [with Bernard Leach]. And as we were approaching England, Leach said, "Do you have a place to live?" And we said, "No, we didn't." We hadn't worried about that. But Bernard had just separated from his second wife, which we had not realized, and Bernard was a person who could not stand to live alone. So he said, "Would you like to share my house with me?" Naturally we said yes.” PersonsSaidHouseTalkingSunWifeWonderfulShareSittingEnglandSevenWorriedPlaces To LiveSeven Days Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper – complete coincidence – does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.” PeopleWorldFirstsBelieveDoeSaidWarFatherNamesTalkingTakenCenturyProductsEnglandMarketingSoldierRanWar Of The WorldsCrapCoincidenceToiletsPilgrim18th CenturyPromotersFirst World WarAmerican Soldier17th CenturyBusiness MarketingFlushing Author:Lucy Worsley