“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In for example Birmingham, England where a lot of these guys came from, where one of these plots was hatched, it's up to 30% of the population. Maybe that's the problem?” CountryUseProblemGuyExampleArgumentDoctorsIncreaseEnglandPopulationPlotSheerBirmingham Author:Neil Cavuto
“If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.” IfsWayNaturalWrittenExampleStudentsSeasonsEnglandFruitCompanionApologyPaleDesksBetter PlaceScholarshipRiflesNew EnglandSaddlesOar Book:Letters of Francis Parkman Source: Letters of Francis Parkman
“Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.” DifferentStyleExampleEnglandBrandsJapanDifferent StylesEyelashes Author:Park Bom
“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.” CountryAttentionMoralTeacherInfluenceExampleDisciplineEnglandTownsSizeIronMagicianRailPunctuality Author:Samuel Smiles
“After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.” WayWholeFactsLightMightAnimalSubjectsExampleReturnEnglandPlantFollowingThrownBoresVariationCollectingGeology Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.” ThinkingWritingLittlesHomeExampleEnglandCoalWales Author:John Gimlette