#land

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? ↗

— Oliver St. John

#bull #crossed #flow #honey #land

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that. ↗

— Davy Jones

#changed #home #i #important #life

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England. ↗

— Davy Jones

#around #build #couple #england #here

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider. ↗

— Davy Jones

#challenge #couple #cup #i #maryland

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#book #depressed #difficult #disappearing #fast

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#film #had #i #ireland #just

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#around #called #down #film #i

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#drive #either #england #factory #going