Betjeman Slough Quotes & Sayings

Sovereignty means exercising kingly power. We use the word in relation to God meaning that there is absolutely nothing that he does not control. — Graeme Goldsworthy

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common? — Gabrielle Zevin

The name itself is trouble. "Slough" means, literally, muddy field. A snake sloughs, or sheds, its dead skin. John Bunyan wrote of the "slough of despond" in Pilgrim's Progress. In the 1930s, John Betjeman wrote this poem about Slough: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow, Swarm over, Death! Then he got nasty. To this day, the residents of Slough rankle when anyone mentions the poem. The town's reputation as a showpiece of quiet desperation was cemented when the producers of the TV series The Office decided to set the show in Slough. — Eric Weiner

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top. — Matt Groening

The top of one mountain is the bottom of the next. — Robin S. Sharma

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death! — John Betjeman

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope

I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that. — James Ponsoldt

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat. — Woodrow Wilson

I don't want to wake up ten years from now regretting that I let this slip through my fingers. I don't want to waste another moment without you in my life. — A Meredith Walters