Finsbury Circus Quotes & Sayings

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else. — Lauryn Hill

A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too. — Larry McMurtry

Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him. — Rush Limbaugh

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared. — Erin Morgenstern

Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea. — Josh Kaufman

You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you'll never be the same again — Azar Nafisi

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention. — Thucydides

Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? — Gordon Lightfoot

Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much. — Tom Rachman

I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. — Ansel Elgort

Our very awareness is the window upon which reality presents itself. — Frederick Lenz

No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business. — Leo Tolstoy