#rita

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term. ↗

— John Surtees

#great #great britain #longer #look #term

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#britain #cooperation #degree #department #dominions

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#be happy #britain #germany #handling #happy

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#heritage #honor #leave #take #you

Visual presentation of our heritage in glass is needed. ↗

— James Lafferty

#heritage #needed #our #presentation #visual

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#britain #else #i #i do #more

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#another #australia #britain #california #connects

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger