#uk

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay. ↗

— James Buchan

#down #nuclear #nuclear power #power #should

Getting into television was a total fluke. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#getting #into #television #total

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors. ↗

— Jack Cade

#cherish #commons #destroy #duke #england

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#die #fool #generation #go #lukewarm

The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#cured #doctor #happiest #i #leukemia

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all. ↗

— Lee Child

#almost #i #june #maybe #midnight

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#culture #europe #european #european union #geography

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#anything #century #condemned #draw #each

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello? ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#big #doing #dukes #film #hello