Quotes for All
American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this time that the Rothschilds were consolidating their new industrial holdings in the United States through their agent, August Belmont. Derek Wilson tells us: They owned or had major shareholdings in … Read more
I wanted to make sure that I was making films about the world. So I thought well, I should go and see it. I’m spending a lot of time in – we call them caravans in Britain. Ewan McGregor
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a ‘smart’ trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process. Evgeny Morozov
There’s an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain – it just manifests itself in different ways. Eve Ensler
Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe – and Phyllis herself … Read more
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don’t see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world’s mobile phones. Evan Davis
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick – the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together. Evan Davis
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that after the American Revolution, all the old laws remained in effect in the new United States: Some of these laws of English common law dated back to 1278, long before America … Read more
Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do – but I prefer to live in California. Eric Burdon
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain. Ephraim Mirvis