Brummie Quotes

#1. He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked.

Tim Parks

#2. Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.

Jim McGrath

#3. I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Cherie Blair

#4. Because here, Bullet,
here is where the world ends, every time.

Brian Turner

#5. I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

Christopher Reeve

#6. Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Daniel Handler

#7. ... I doubt if this is God's doing. I suspect he'll keep right out of it as a consequence.

Stephen King

#8. Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

Robert Genn

#9. I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Harold Brodkey

#10. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.

Josh Earnest