British Quotes

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

I wouldn't do go to another band.

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.