#uk

Here," he said, "get yourself some healthy food. You look awful." I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. "It's not money," he said, "it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it." All I could do was thank him and accept the money. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#norwegian-wood #food

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ↗

— Boris Vian

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #else #everything

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.' ↗

— Jack Wagner

#came #cusp #even #general #generation

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. ↗

— Johann Hari

#britain #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#end #gives #hair #hear #stands

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#bastards #big #break #corporate #fluke

I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#better #better life #changes #deserves #good

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#allowed #first #i #interests #like

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#improve #lives #must #myself #our

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK. ↗

— Saul Williams

#been #coming #i #inspired #lot