Pebbledashed Quotes & Sayings

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches - signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.

Not your typical holiday destination.

JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this - among other - notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it. — Joanna Campbell

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading. — Sarah Dessen

Hypothesis is a toll which can cause trouble if not used properly. We must be ready to abandon our hypothesis as soon as it is shown to be inconsistent with the facts. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

He would rather know what's outside, see the summer in its sad blowing wreckage, than cower behind the blind and wonder what the damage is. - Thomas Cromwell - Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel

I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie. — Macaulay Culkin

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. — Lauren Graham

No point in arguing. But of course I argued. — Sergei Dovlatov

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. — Max Greenfield

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research. — Robert Pozen

Blue Horse said to me ... wisdom is not a path, it is a tree. — Nancy E. Turner

The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up. — Elisabeth Elliot