Billingsgate Deli Quotes & Sayings

Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection. — Walter Terry

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape — Rem Koolhaas

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know? — Lee Battersby

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky

But the truly ambitious teams find relief in honesty when they've lost, because it's the diagnostic tool that leads to a solution - here's what we did wrong and let's fix it, so we don't ever have to feel this way again. Great teams explain their failure; they don't excuse it. Then they pay a visit to Charles Atlas and get stronger. When you explain a loss aloud, it's no longer a tormenting mystery. I believed in that brand of honesty my whole career, and I knew at least one other coach who believed in it too. — Pat Summitt

After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different — Gurinder Chadha

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love. — Joan Jett

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you. — Audre Lorde