“My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.” IfsAbleFatherGamesWatchesEnglandDiedAustraliaCricket1930sFather DiedMy Father Died Author:Desmond Llewelyn
“Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.” StillsGirlWatchesCreativityHeardSceneMusicianAreasEnglandSpicesGreat MusicMtvGreat MusicianSpice Girls Author:Jimmy Carl Black
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.” AgeLostStarsCitiesPrinciplesWatchesCrazyPrideEmptyBaseballEnglandMarketingDecadesArchitecturePlanningSymbolsErasInnocenceParksSeatsWorking ItSpeakersViolationRiceBabeMenaceEpochNew EnglandConsultantsRuthTrisQuiltsBallparksCity PlanningEvergreensEmpty SeatsFenway Park Author:Martin Nolan
“Recently, while I was in England, I saw a documentary on the BBC about the border between India and Pakistan at Wagah. When the border closes each evening around six o' clock, the soldiers on each side do these amazing high-stepping peacock march-offs (like a dance-off). The displays are almost identical on each side and thousands gather to watch them. Though they're patrolling along their separate borders, what comes across is how similar they are.” SidesWatchesSawsSixIndiaEnglandSoldierEveningClockBordersMarchDisplayDocumentariesPakistanIdenticalPeacockIndia And PakistanPatrolling Author:Matthea Harvey
“Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.” PeopleGivingHardGamesLostInterestWatchesExcitingGive MeEnglandInternationalLeagueChampionReversePremier LeagueChampions League Author:Michael Owen
“A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.” PeopleNeedsLongCountryPlayFormLostInterestWatchesHavensFootballLong TimeEnglandInternationalMotivated Author:Michael Owen
“[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."” IfsKnowsFirstsDonePlayWatchesEnglandTheaterWineGlassesDinnerSophisticatedAuntWine Glass Author:Geena Davis
“The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.” KnowsInterestingWatchesPracticeTakenExcitingEnglandFoxesVery InterestingPigeonsExciting Things Author:Asa Butterfield
“I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.” NeedsVoiceWatchesEventsEnglandPressesDuesOlympicsRoyalFoulDazzlingFree PressJingoism Author:Steven Morrissey
“Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.” EnemyWatchesEnglandWeatherNosesGet AwayGroundedBad Weather Author:Franz Halder
“How long are women to remain a wholly unrepresented body of the people? This is a question that has of late been agitated in England, and women in this colony read, watch, and reflect...Why should not New Zealand also lead?...Why has a woman to power to vote, no right to vote, when she happens to possess all the requisites which legally qualify a man for that right?” PeopleMenShouldLongBodyHappensWatchesWords Of WisdomLateVoteEnglandColonyNew ZealandRight To Vote Author:Mary Ann Muller