Euston Road Quotes & Sayings

She could not hope to overcome him, but if she could find a blade quickly enough, if she could open her wrists. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

It was November, that quiet, gray time of the year when you feel like holding someone's hand. Gretel had her own hands clasped together, like a corpse. — Alice Hoffman

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting. — Gary Hume

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh. — Khalil Gibran

Why don't I know You?" "Does anyone ever really know someone else?" "You think your cute," she told him. "You think your gorgeous. But I'm the one guy here who knows better." "So I'm not gorgeous?" Macey challenged. "Of course you are," He started away, turned back at the last minute. "But I'm the guy who figured out that's not all you are." - Double Crossed by Ally Carter — Ally Carter

These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone. — Simon Garfield

Maybe the things we think we have to believe are the things that end up killing us in the end, when we figure out we were wrong, about everything. — Kate Ellison

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy. — Jose Maria Aznar

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Christian
One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. — H.L. Mencken

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.
Physics shook its head and, looking the other way, concentrated on keeping the cards going along the Euston Road and out over towards the Westway flyover, on keeping the street lights lit and on making sure that when somebody on Baker Street dropped a cheeseburger it went splat on the ground. — Douglas Adams

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors? — Marilyn Vos Savant