#gland

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England. ↗

— David Prowse

#casting #england #george #george lucas #lucas

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#becomes #copy #deep #england #ever

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#good #her #home #new #new england

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#embrace #england #i #ireland #like

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#england #here #new #new england #strong

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#europe #father #important #impression #sabbatical

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England. ↗

— Timothy F. Cahill

#because #boots #bothered #cleaning #club