If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.
Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.
Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor - even in this industry.
Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.
If Russell Wilson gets outside of the protection and can scramble around, New England loses. If the Patriots keep him in the pocket, New England wins.
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.
[T]he liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public, and the universal happiness of individuals, were never so skillfully and successfully consulted as in that most excellent monument of human art, the common law of England.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
I'd Love to be captain of Arsenal for even just one day.
At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers. . . Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
David James is frustrated because he thinks us being bottom isn't helping his chances with England. I think it gives him more chance to show his ability.