Britons History Quotes & Sayings

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. — Walter Darby Bannard

When it's your own thing there's a lot more pressure to make it awesome, since these people bought tickets specifically for you. Whereas at the festivals, you're one of many acts on a bill so I find it's less pressure. — Flume

By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power. — Barack Obama

She seemed suddenly a daughter of light alone. His entity dropped out of her plane and he longed only to touch her dress with almost the realization that Joseph must have had of Mary's eternal significance. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The cortex uses the same computational tool to accomplish everything it does. — Jeff Hawkins

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none. — E.F. Schumacher

Something strange is happening to me: I find myself becoming lighter and less cynical. People use sarcasm and I don't immediately pick up on it, because I don't use it anymore. When people do, it's as if I'm hearing a language I spoke fluently in my childhood, but have since lost. And I just find Woody Allen creepy. — Mara Wilson

In football, you're like brothers. — Torrey Smith

All right," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm not from Guildford at all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?"
Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way.
"I don't know," he said, taking a pull of beer. "Why, do you think it's the sort of thing you're likely to say?"
Ford gave up. It really wasn't worth bothering at the moment, what with the world being about to end. — Douglas Adams

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad. — Carine Roitfeld

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear. — Brian Tracy

And I can't get to her. My girl is half naked and dying and I can't get to her!
I push forward.
I ice solid.
I crack it and pull back.
Fuck! — Karen Marie Moning

You
can see all of this online. But that's cheating. No computer program
can compare to the physical experience. It's like learning how to
play a virtual sports game. You're not really playing anything,
against anyone. You're just a spectator. People are becoming
spectators of their own lives instead of living them. But the best part
is getting in the game. That's when it's all worth it. — Katie Kacvinsky

I've won at every level, except college and pro. — Shaquille O'Neal

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. — David Rockefeller