Quotes About The British Invasion

#1. The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

Steven Van Zandt

#2. I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Richard Rodriguez

#4. Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.

James Buchan

#5. Tea! That's all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.

Russell T. Davies

#6. Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.

Madame De La Fayette

#7. Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

Ronnie Wood

#8. I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Paulo Coelho

#9. A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.

Rick Heinrichs

#10. I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Andy Serkis

#11. I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."

Franz Drameh

#12. I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Anna Sui

#13. Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#14. 'A guitar would work.' But then again so would a flute. A horn. A banjo. A tambourine. A trombone. The drums. When you're mixing music and love, there really is no bad combination." -Elvis Ruby

Nan Marino

#15. In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Tacitus

#16. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

Jeff Goodell

#17. I met a travler from an ancient land.

Gabrielle Zevin

#18. So, how is the British invasion going? Has he invaded your hoohah yet?

Alice Clayton

#19. Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Joseph Addison

#20. The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion).

Stephen Colbert

#21. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

#22. I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

Aaron Swartz

#23. The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.

Jeff Barry

#24. There are things in this book, as in life, that might upset you. There is death and pain in here, tears and discomfort, violence of all kinds, cruelty, even abuse. There is kindness, too, I hope, sometimes. Even a handful of happy endings. (Few

Neil Gaiman

#25. I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

Denis Healey

#26. I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

John Varvatos