He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: “What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?”He sounded...

I’ll support England to win, and she’ll support Portugal but we’re not aggressive about it,

David James is a tremendous acquisition. We have been looking to strengthen the goalkeeping position and to secure the England number one is terrific news.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

I think England should be happy, there are groups much more difficult than England’s. The man after me will be happy with this draw. It’s very interesting and very good.

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

Every person in England is currently recycling enough to fill eight green wheelie bins, but they could be filling over 20 – the equivalent of 60% of their waste.

This is desperately bas luck for a player who was in form. I feel he would have made the England twenty-two, if not the starting XV.

At one point, so many people had assembled on the bridge that linked the ship to the shore that the timbers began to creak and groan. Suddenly, there was a tremendous crack and a hundred...

I enjoyed history at school. I’d always had a sense of pagan England.

This is England,” he explained. “Tell someone it’s a procedure, and they’ll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

The morning has broken – I had thought of the morning like an egg that had split with a crack and was spreading. Before us lay all the green of the green country of England,...

This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. …But we have a difficult situation here so I...

his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors…Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story,...

This book is a lot about the New England of today.

Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism’s an English thing and we’re aw Jock Tamson’s bairn up here . . . it’s likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is...

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win...

She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.’What’s the trouble?”Look out there, that’s the trouble! It’s so green and quiet and it’s always bloody raining.”That’s England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I’m afraid there’s...

We thought we would give England a bit of a scare.

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from...

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great...

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t-it just stops you from enjoying it.

This century will be called Darwin’s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write...

The earnings data may encourage the Bank of England to hold off from cutting interest rates in the immediate future as March while it seeks sustained clear evidence that the pay settlements for 2006 are...

In New England, Belichick had established players, guys who knew him. He can just give you that look, and you’ll straighten up.

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in...

England are a magnificent team,

I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no...

As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -“No...

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

Right now we’re not executing. I’m not sure if it’s because New England is used to playing against a similar defense with Miami being in their conference. We weren’t executing and they were. I see...

They were betting New England like the other team wasn’t even going to show up.

Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England – that’s how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

I’ve never been thrown out of a pub, but I’ve fallen into quite a few

Against Washington and New England we got off pretty lucky because there wasn’t enough time left. This week it finally caught up to us.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing,...

Let’s see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let’s make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Burst pipes were an English tradition, like so many others.Like, for instance, English men. Charm the knickers off you with their mellow vowels and frivolous verbiage, and then, once they’d got them off, panic and...

It was a very satisfying innings, England have one of the better attacks I have played in Indian conditions.

When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I’d picked up a book of my Gram’s, a dog-eared romance from the ’sixties about English hospital ‘sisters’ trying to...