Top 29 Midlands Quotes

#1. Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

Trevor Nunn

Midlands Quotes #82229
#2. In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

Randy Lerner

Midlands Quotes #1742403
#3. Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real me now."
Captain Midlands: "I told him to get his bleedin' hair cut.

Paul Cornell

Midlands Quotes #1414010
#4. I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.

Laura Mvula

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#5. On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

John Sulston

Midlands Quotes #1137209
#6. After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

Tom Hooper

Midlands Quotes #972715
#7. I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

Aidan Quinn

Midlands Quotes #877677
#8. Now don't jerk me around. This is the Midlands. There are no vampires here, and dressing up like one doesn't make it so. You can't even tell me how he's got no marks on his neck!"
"Oh yes I can. It's the twenty-first century. These days we tend to clean up after ourselves.

John Hennessy

Midlands Quotes #856682
#9. My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

Midlands Quotes #524954
#10. There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up
the cold air coming down
and where they meet is your typical frontal location.

Joe Schaefer

Midlands Quotes #504555
#11. In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Brian Halweil

Midlands Quotes #402048
#12. Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

Alice Lowe

Midlands Quotes #262803
#13. I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

Alice Lowe

Midlands Quotes #205995
#14. I didn't expect that for every shell on the coast there's a tree in the midlands.

Sara Baume

Midlands Quotes #96235
#15. Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon ... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

D.H. Lawrence

Midlands Quotes #76608
#16. 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

Midlands Quotes #647063
#17. Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

Michael S. Roth

Midlands Quotes #1646257
#18. I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Miuccia Prada

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#19. The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Gore Vidal

Midlands Quotes #1186838
#20. Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

George Crabbe

Midlands Quotes #921432
#21. BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

Jay Leno

Midlands Quotes #868149
#22. I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

Boris Pasternak

Midlands Quotes #712112
#23. During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

Yvon Chouinard

Midlands Quotes #662530
#24. We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

Shirley Maclaine

Midlands Quotes #655779
#25. It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Walter Hill

Midlands Quotes #644301
#26. To remain static is to lose ground.

David Packard

Midlands Quotes #496268
#27. Elizabeth was still puzzled by his reaction, but that did make some sense.

Monique Martin

Midlands Quotes #485219
#28. Deserts need trees; men need wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Midlands Quotes #406021
#29. Anybody can be anybody, he told himself as he eased his body down onto Devin's, the blunt pain of a beautiful pleasure wedging him open.

Paul Russell

Midlands Quotes #327691

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