“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.” MatterFactsViewsBritainGet AwayForeignersWhere You Come Author:Aasif Mandvi
“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” YearsFirstsHumansStillsTwoFactsDiesBornAirCreaturesEternalEnglandTwentiesBritainIrelandSeventiesForeignersBeing IrishIreland And The Irish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.” MenFirstsWholeFactsAmericaLyingHistoryCreationThousandForestsBritainRomeEgyptGreeceEncyclopediaAcornsGreece And Rome Book:Twelve Essays Source: Twelve Essays
“When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.” FirstsFactsTalentPhonesTeethSuitsBritainMobileMobile Phones Author:Paul Potts
“People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.” PeopleKnowsArtFactsSeemsStrongGrowthKnownArt IsEnglandPressesSpreadLondonAwakeBritainCentreGreat Britain Author:Edward Elgar
“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.” PeopleThinkingWayBelieveBookFactsRememberLossGenerationsSpecialNew YorkSacredAncientProfitCommunicateSellingBritainRomeEgyptGreeceAncient EgyptTreadingProfit And LossSelling Books Author:Neil Gaiman
“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.” PeopleMenWayIdeasCountryStatesFactsMightAgeTodayHouseAcceptingRiskWillingRevolutionProveMen And WomenPropertyBritishProofBritainHeritageElitesFloatsAristocracyGreat BritainIntangibleBritish HistoryContinentalAristocraticCountry Houses Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837