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“Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.”

Firsts Hands Today Office England Occasions Ministers Queens Chairs Prime Royal Prime Minister Historic Majesty Commonwealth Julia Another Woman Queen Of England Highness

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.”

Ifs Looks Littles Made Stills Use Today Wanted Names Lost Bits Difficult Cases Fantasy Too Much Little Bit England Spells Variation Medieval Flavour Medieval Times

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.”

Said Today Nations England Goalkeepers Shopkeepers

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.”

Today Lessons Losing England Bad Day

Author:Greg Chappell

“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.”

Ifs Thinking Today Lying Sex Differences Lines Generations Degrees England Mistaken Commonplace Victorian Pompeii

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living.”

Giving Today Life Is Mines England Decree

Author:Steven Morrissey

“We have experienced the truth of this prophecy, for England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbott, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.”

Ends Today England Misery Riches Outsiders Prophecy Foreigners Englishmen Dominion Bishops Newcomers

Author:William of Malmesbury

“Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!”

“Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.”

People Way Kind Country Today Certain England Pressure Be Kind Repressed

Author:Ben Whishaw

“We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.”

Men Children Long Today England Sat Honour Loyal Ireland Virtuous Thrones Murderer Poorest Madmen Descendants Labourers

Book:Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

Source: Labour in Irish history ; The re-conquest of Ireland ; Socialism and nationalism

“Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.”

World Today America Modern England Newspapers Reports Mixtures Modern World Absorbing Indignation Incredulity Scanning

Author:Paul Johnson

“Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.”

Today Guy Emotion Growing Up Growing Like You England Being Cool

Author:Freddie Highmore

“Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.”

“You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.”

Today England Pubs

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.”

Today Environment Fields Grew Grew Up England Series Woods Wilderness Exploring New England Habitat Coastal

Author:Jeff Corwin

“Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.”

Bigs Reality Today Sex Secret England Dirty Nasty Big Business Victorian Dirty Secrets

Author:Ralph Nader

“Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.”

Today White England Miserable Curse Eggs Sarcastic Veins Belly Pulse Jelly Sod Spunk Invertebrates

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!”

Ifs Men Today Science Theory Reader Taste England Jew Germany Description Application Relativity Swiss Theories Of Relativity

Author:Albert Einstein

“The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.”

People World Today America Amount Pure England Majority Decent Modesty Modest Virgins World Today Virginity England And America

Author:Barbara Cartland

“He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.”

Play Would Be Today Used Week England Twenties Pounds Matthew Stanley

Author:Gianfranco Zola

“So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.”

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