“I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.” EndsWholeAmericaEnjoyFameTreatsWestTheatreBritainConventionsToiletsLimosWest End Author:Sylvester McCoy
“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
“It is not just that it is profoundly offensive to the leaders and people of a democratic Germany to paint Hitler on the wall (or on the remnants of the Wall). It is also consummately counterproductive. Such sauce does not make the meat of substantive criticism more interesting. It means that the whole dish is pushed away. It does not mean that Britain's voice is listened to more attentively in the councils of Europe. It means that it is listened to even less.” PeopleMeanDoeWholeVoiceInterestingLeaderWallEuropeCriticismDemocraticPaintMeatGermanyBritainDishesOffensiveCouncilSauceRemnantsCounterproductivePushed Away Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.” MeanHas BeensBookStatesWholeMightWould BePurposeNationsPerfectHappenedCenturyFiguresParticularBritishBritainTreatmentIrelandMight Have BeenMisleadNavalIsleIreland And The IrishImplying Author:Nicholas Rodger