The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?"
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Related You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY I am not talking to anyone in the British media - they are all pricks. ALLAN BORDER We do not think they (the British government) are doing enough. All the government would say is that... LOUISE CHRISTIAN I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou... JOHN LE CARRé Jesus declared, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63... ANDREW WOMMACK Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its ... ROBERT TROUT You know, if some of these folks have been living back to that April night in 1775 when Paul Revere ... ZELL MILLER What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. Y... WILL SELF When my parents came over, they weren't accepted by the British people. They struggled to hold on to... 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A man who tells lies merely hides the truth, but a man... THE BRITISH CONSUL. Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... CHRISTOPHER PIKE The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British i... NELSON MANDELA These men are not appreciated. They went through a lot. If we had lost the (Revolutionary) war, thes... THOMAS FLEMING If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,... THOMAS CARLYLE If (opponents) are taking the time to focus on us dancing and trash talking, that means they are not... MARCUS STROUD If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British go... MARTIN MCGUINNESS We realized that the Japanese who came to Wimbledon were very interested in the history of the Briti... ASHLEY JONES There are these inexpert American seamen, never in a naval battle before, on their ships waiting for... HOWARD COFFIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writ... NAVEEN ANDREWS Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow eli... RUPERT MURDOCH Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he... ERIC IDLE Our brain operates six to seven times faster than anyone can speak, so our brain becomes occupied wi... LUKE DE SADELEER Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British wha... LAWRENCE DURRELL The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not... MASSOUD SHADJAREH The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not... MASSOUD SHADJAREH ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why? TOM BAKER The word was out that maybe, just maybe, a British accent would fit. The hair, the skin tone and the... DOUGLAS ADAMS I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON If your eyes could speak, what would they say?. MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say MAX VANDENBURG "THE BOOK THIEF" The point is those critics say that if you sign with a baby they won't learn to talk. But it's not g... LINDA HURWITZ There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to com... PETER USTINOV Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the I... CONAN O'BRIEN I know I speak on behalf of all NATO allies when I express our sympathy for and solidarity with the ... JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbe... JULIAN FELLOWES It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate hon... NICOLE SCHERZINGER The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' vo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and i... WINSTON CHURCHILL Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Ple... JOHN KNOWLES The British fans, they are very festive; they support their people. ANDRE WARD British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con... ALEXANDER MCQUEEN Let (British Prime Minister Tony) Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either, ROBERT MUGABE If the American people do not believe that what they collectively established in the White House is ... DEBORAH SIMPSON My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, w... EMO PHILIPS Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have unde... JON STEWART With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and... NORMAN JEWISON As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and pe... DUSTIN JOHNSON When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as fer... HEATHER BROOKE Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to go... JOHN OLIVER If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M... SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON How dare they say things like that when John Kerry supported them on a number of different things an... ED RENDELL My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' head... EMO PHILIPS The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends PETER USTINOV No one knew how many of the Indians would come back. We are so happy to see they came out, even if i... JOYCE JACKSON It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them... STAFFORD CRIPPS I would say more important than having these big conversations with children about sex abuse would b... ERIN SORENSON If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top... GAVYN DAVIES Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr... GEORGE OSBORNE Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England an... BEVERLY CLEARY For someone who is British, the fish have a certain kind of resonance. They were brought by function... ANDREW DAVIS It can happen that if anyone is talking to a person they know cannot see well, they are careless. Th... AGATHA CHRISTIE There seems to be a sense in the British media that prime ministers enjoy going to war. They do not.... JONATHAN POWELL Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the ... EVA GREEN Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Ra... BIBLE If they don't vote for her, I hope somebody will have the decency to tell them to go stuff it, ... I... BRIAN MULRONEY This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed toda... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o... CAROL VORDERMAN Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ... ARTHUR SCARGILL And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear B... BERNARD CORNWELL [The Scottish Football Association gave the first indication yesterday it is prepared to drop opposi... ANDY MITCHELL As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me t... GEORGE J. MITCHELL I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator th... MARK SHIELDS I think what they (the British) would have been concerned about was the suggestion that America was ... LEN SCOTT They (the British) are like their own beer; froth on top, dregs at bottom, the middle excellent VOLTAIRE It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd fo... NICK SAGAN But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made ... CARSON MCCULLERS But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ... CLARICE LISPECTOR I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British ... ARTHUR PENN The questions and the what if this happens and what if that happens. I'm not even interested in that... COLE DOWNER We, the farmers, believe that if this problem was identified on another person's farm, not a ministe... AUWALU HARUNA It is important for everyone to move every day, and what I prescribe is daily aerobic exercise of ab... DR. JANA KLAUER Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ... ARTHUR SCARGILL We'd actually met him once when he was at Cambridge. Then Terry Gilliam came along and started doing... TERRY JONES The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they'... IAN MCKELLEN I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they ... PETER SIS I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc... C. JOYBELL C. What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA
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