British Controlled Territory

Famous quotes containing the words british, controlled and/or territory:

    “It’s like the Beatles coming together again—let’s hope they don’t go on a world tour.”
    —Matt Frei, British journalist. Quoted in Listener (London, June 21, 1990)

    “The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
    and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
    He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
    in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)