"London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys."

-- George Gissing

#London Quotes #Hotel Quotes #Shops Quotes

“It truly feels great to be a Cub today,”
“You're all welcome in California,”
“Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But my last conscious thought was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse. His face had been close to mine. Two curls had spilled onto his forehead. A few freckles dusted his nose, and his eyes said he was sorry for me to go.”
“I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.”
“I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.”
“And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. Thereâ€™s clear and substantiated proof they were real. She won battles that would otherwise have been lost because of what those voices told her in advance of them allowing the French generals to strategize in ways completely different than they did before Joan came along. Peopleâ€™s lives were saved because of what those voices told her.”
“The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.”

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